Can I hide or silence “npm ERR!” output when using npm run script?

Question

I\'m using npm run script to do tasks such as \"build\" and \"test\".

For example, my package.json looks like the following:

{
  \"name\         


        

Answer 1

As others have noted, the problem with --silent is you lose all output. There's another way that seems to work for most cases:

npm run something 2>/dev/null

If one of the binaries you are running happens to write to stderr, then that will be suppressed. But most node stuff writes to stdout, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Of course this will work only in a shell environment that supports output redirection.