On Apr 23, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> It would be nice to not have to type "run-script" to refer to custom scripts. 
> Some package managers like leiningen expose custom scripts without any fuss 
> ("lein cust"). Could we do the same with NPM ("npm cust")?
> 
> Yes, security may be a concern, for package.json files that attempt to 
> overwrite NPM built-ins like "install", "update", "help", etc. We have 
> several options for handling collisions. My solution is for NPM to strip out 
> scripts that would overwrite these built-ins, and print a warning along the 
> lines of:
> 
> "WARN: package.json attempted to overwrite npm built-in script "install". 
> Ignoring custom script..."
> 
> Just an idea.

Note that `npm run` is an alias for `npm run-script`.  That should reduce the 
pain by 70%.  :)

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