npm-start

npm start written in bash that propagates kill to subprocesses

npm install npm-start -g

Usage

Usage is exactly the same as npm start

$ cd some-folder-with-a-package-json
$ npm-start

The difference is that when it receives SIGTERM it will kill all subprocesses as well (which npm start doesn't do) and wait for them to exit

$ kill pid-of-npm-start # this will actually kill the node process

Also memory usage for long running processes might be a bit lower since you do not need to spawn an additional node process to start npm

MIT