How can I get npm start at a different directory

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I usually cd into the app directory and then run npm start   It is my feeling that there ought to be some way to run npm start with a path parameter  But  the npm start documentation contains no such feature   I tried myself only to find npm start   myapp does not work  Is there a way to do that

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Per this npm issue list  one work around could be done through npm config  name   foo  config    path   baz     scripts    start   node    npm package config path      Under windows  the scripts could be   start   node    npm package config path      Then run the command line as below  npm start --foo path myapp

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This one-liner should work   npm start --prefix path to your app   Corresponding doc

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Below Command  where project is a folder which contains package json file  npm run --prefix project   COMMAND    is working as well   Useful in Docker based applications

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I came here from google so it might be relevant to others  for yarn you could use   yarn --cwd  path to your app run start

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This one-liner should work too    cd  path to your app  amp  amp  npm start    Note that the current directory will be changed to  path to your app after executing this command  To preserve the working directory    cd  path to your app  amp  amp  npm start  amp  amp  cd -    I used this solution because a program configuration file I was editing back then didn t support specifying command line arguments

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npm start --prefix path to your app   amp  inside package json add the following script   scripts         preinstall   cd   pwd

[node.js] How can I get npm start at a different directory?

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