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History of 2021-03-07 A directory name as a command-line parameter for Node.js

2021-03-07
		07:57 UTC Revision 1 . . . . mbork – Some time ago I accidentally discovered a neat feature of Node.js, which seems undocumented (at least I could not find anything about it in the docs). If you have some npm project in a directory, say /tmp/some-npm-project, and it has the main property in package.json set to some Node.js script, say bin.js, then saying just node /tmp/some-npm-project runs /tmp/some-npm-project/bin.js. It turns out to be quite useful if you have a directory full of various Node.js CLI utilities, each occupying its own directory, with its own package.json, especially considering shell autocompletion. And that’s it for today!