# npm-restart

Start a package

## SYNOPSIS

    npm restart <name>

## DESCRIPTION

This runs a package's "restart" script, if one was provided. Otherwise it runs package's "stop" script, if one was provided, and then the "start" script.

If no version is specified, then it restarts the "active" version.

## SEE ALSO

- npm-run-script(1)
- npm-scripts(7)
- npm-test(1)
- npm-start(1)
- npm-stop(1)