How to use executables from a package installed locally in node_modules?

Question

How do I use a local version of a module in node.js. For example, in my app, I installed coffee-script:

npm install coffee-script

Answer 1

I prefer to not rely on shell aliases or another package.

Adding a simple line to scripts section of your package.json, you can run local npm commands like

npm run webpack

package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "webpack": "webpack"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "webpack": "^4.1.1",
    "webpack-cli": "^2.0.11"
  }
}