<!doctype html> <html> <title>npm-restart</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../static/style.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-restart.html"> <script async=true src="../../static/toc.js"></script> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <h1><a href="../cli/npm-restart.html">npm-restart</a></h1> <p>Restart a package</p> <h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <pre><code>npm restart [-- <args>]</code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>This restarts a package.</p> <p>This runs a package's "stop", "restart", and "start" scripts, and associated pre- and post- scripts, in the order given below:</p> <ol> <li>prerestart</li> <li>prestop</li> <li>stop</li> <li>poststop</li> <li>restart</li> <li>prestart</li> <li>start</li> <li>poststart</li> <li>postrestart</li> </ol> <h2 id="note">NOTE</h2> <p>Note that the "restart" script is run <strong>in addition to</strong> the "stop" and "start" scripts, not instead of them.</p> <p>This is the behavior as of <code>npm</code> major version 2. A change in this behavior will be accompanied by an increase in major version number</p> <h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2> <ul> <li><a href="../cli/npm-run-script.html">npm-run-script(1)</a></li> <li><a href="../misc/npm-scripts.html">npm-scripts(7)</a></li> <li><a href="../cli/npm-test.html">npm-test(1)</a></li> <li><a href="../cli/npm-start.html">npm-start(1)</a></li> <li><a href="../cli/npm-stop.html">npm-stop(1)</a></li> <li><a href="../api/npm-restart.html">npm-restart(3)</a></li> </ul> </div> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 id=npmlogo> <tr><td style="width:180px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=18> </td></tr> <tr><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td colspan=6 style="width:60px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 style="width:20px;height:30px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=4 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:20px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=2> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:60px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=6> </td><td colspan=10 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=5 style="width:50px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:90px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=9> </td></tr> </table> <p id="footer">npm-restart — npm@6.5.0</p>