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npm run Has Some Typo Aliases

The developers of the npm CLI know that sometimes we are trying to run commands in a hurry. It's easy to be trying to type npm run and instead type npm rum or npm urn. No worries though, the command will still work.

If I run npm help run, I'll see a manpage that opens with the following:

NPM-RUN(1)                                                                    NPM-RUN(1)

NAME
       npm-run - Run arbitrary package scripts

   Synopsis
         npm run <command> [-- <args>]

         aliases: run-script, rum, urn

  ...

Notice it lists a few aliases including rum and urn.

Here are two examples of me running my test suite with rum and then urn.

❯ npm rum test:run

> test:run
> vitest run


 RUN  v3.0.7 /Users/lastword/dev/jbranchaud/still

 ✓ app/javascript/utils/urlUtils.test.js (6 tests) 2ms
 ✓ app/javascript/utils/clipboardImage.test.js (20 tests) 3ms

 Test Files  2 passed (2)
      Tests  26 passed (26)
   Start at  22:07:53
   Duration  298ms (transform 17ms, setup 0ms, collect 22ms, tests 5ms, environment 270ms, prepare 63ms)


❯ npm urn test:run

> test:run
> vitest run


 RUN  v3.0.7 /Users/lastword/dev/jbranchaud/still

 ✓ app/javascript/utils/urlUtils.test.js (6 tests) 3ms
 ✓ app/javascript/utils/clipboardImage.test.js (20 tests) 3ms

 Test Files  2 passed (2)
      Tests  26 passed (26)
   Start at  22:07:58
   Duration  305ms (transform 20ms, setup 0ms, collect 25ms, tests 6ms, environment 269ms, prepare 61ms)

See npm help run for more details.