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Last Updated: 2024-04-24
Pass-through scripts can modify paths:
My package.json had a scripts key containing:
{
"test": "jest"
}
As expected, it could be executed with:
$ npm test
Yet running $ jest on the command line failed. How is that possible?
The reason is that the npm command first searches inside node_modules/.bin/
for commands, i.e. adding it to $PATH. This folder contains the jest
program. However the $PATH for my terminal did search this folder.
Scripts can modify path