--- title: npm-restart section: 1 description: Restart a package --- ### Synopsis ```bash npm restart [-- <args>] ``` ### Description This restarts a project. It is equivalent to running `npm run-script restart`. If the current project has a `"restart"` script specified in `package.json`, then the following scripts will be run: 1. prerestart 2. restart 3. postrestart If it does _not_ have a `"restart"` script specified, but it does have `stop` and/or `start` scripts, then the following scripts will be run: 1. prerestart 2. prestop 3. stop 4. poststop 6. prestart 7. start 8. poststart 9. postrestart ### Configuration #### `ignore-scripts` * Default: false * Type: Boolean If true, npm does not run scripts specified in package.json files. Note that commands explicitly intended to run a particular script, such as `npm start`, `npm stop`, `npm restart`, `npm test`, and `npm run-script` will still run their intended script if `ignore-scripts` is set, but they will *not* run any pre- or post-scripts. #### `script-shell` * Default: '/bin/sh' on POSIX systems, 'cmd.exe' on Windows * Type: null or String The shell to use for scripts run with the `npm exec`, `npm run` and `npm init <package-spec>` commands. ### See Also * [npm run-script](/commands/npm-run-script) * [npm scripts](/using-npm/scripts) * [npm test](/commands/npm-test) * [npm start](/commands/npm-start) * [npm stop](/commands/npm-stop) * [npm restart](/commands/npm-restart)