A small utility for running package.json scripts and npm modules. run is written in Go and executes scripts faster than npm, yarn, or pnpm since it can skip the Node.js startup time. Additionally run supports dynamic shell completion that suggests available script names as completions.
brew install jacobwgillespie/tap/run
run [script] [flags]
Informally, run is about 25-50 times faster than Node package managers at starting scripts:
Benchmark 1: npm run echo-example
Time (mean ± σ): 183.3 ms ± 2.0 ms [User: 185.2 ms, System: 27.2 ms]
Range (min … max): 181.0 ms … 188.5 ms 15 runs
Benchmark 2: yarn run echo-example
Time (mean ± σ): 109.7 ms ± 0.8 ms [User: 93.2 ms, System: 16.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 108.9 ms … 113.0 ms 27 runs
Benchmark 3: pnpm run echo-example
Time (mean ± σ): 223.7 ms ± 2.7 ms [User: 212.5 ms, System: 18.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 221.1 ms … 231.2 ms 13 runs
Benchmark 4: ./run echo-example
Time (mean ± σ): 5.1 ms ± 0.2 ms [User: 1.9 ms, System: 2.5 ms]
Range (min … max): 4.8 ms … 5.9 ms 507 runs
Summary
./run echo-example ran
21.40 ± 0.67 times faster than yarn run echo-example
35.75 ± 1.16 times faster than npm run echo-example
43.62 ± 1.43 times faster than pnpm run echo-example
If you would like to run the benchmark on your local machine, ensure you have hyperfine installed, then run npm run benchmark (or just run benchark if run is already installed 🦊).
MIT License, see LICENSE.