Do not print error banner for shell proxy commands#2742
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Do not print error banner for shell proxy commands#2742
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There are a few commands (exec, run-script, and the run-script proxies) where essentially npm is acting like a very fancy shell. It is peculiar and noisy for npm to print a verbose error banner at the end of these commands, since presumably the command itself already did whatever it had to do to report the error appropriately. For example, `npm test` runs a test script, usually outputting test results. Having npm then tell me that my tests failed with exit status 1 and print a debug log, is unnecessary and unwanted. When the error encountered for these commands does not have a non-zero numeric 'code', then we still print the standard npm error reporting messages, because presumably something went wrong OTHER than a process exiting with a non-zero status code.
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There are a few commands (exec, run-script, and the run-script proxies) where essentially npm is acting like a very fancy shell. It is peculiar and noisy for npm to print a verbose error banner at the end of these commands, since presumably the command itself already did whatever it had to do to report the error appropriately. For example, `npm test` runs a test script, usually outputting test results. Having npm then tell me that my tests failed with exit status 1 and print a debug log, is unnecessary and unwanted. When the error encountered for these commands does not have a non-zero numeric 'code', then we still print the standard npm error reporting messages, because presumably something went wrong OTHER than a process exiting with a non-zero status code. PR-URL: #2742 Credit: @isaacs Close: #2742 Reviewed-by: @nlf
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There are a few commands (exec, run-script, and the run-script proxies)
where essentially npm is acting like a very fancy shell. It is peculiar
and noisy for npm to print a verbose error banner at the end of these
commands, since presumably the command itself already did whatever it
had to do to report the error appropriately.
For example,
npm testruns a test script, usually outputting testresults. Having npm then tell me that my tests failed with exit status
1 and print a debug log, is unnecessary and unwanted.
When the error encountered for these commands does not have a non-zero
numeric 'code', then we still print the standard npm error reporting
messages, because presumably something went wrong OTHER than a process
exiting with a non-zero status code.
Not sure if this should be considered a breaking change or a bugfix or a feature. It is a change to our output, so anyone relying on that for test failures will be broken. However, it also removes a lot of clutter that is providing no value in the vast majority of uses of
npm test, and allows you to usenpm execwith commands that may communicate something interesting both in stderr and the exit status code. For example, a shell script that outputs JSON to stderr would not be usable withnpm execright now because of this extra debugging output.References