execute npm script from another package

Question

Suppose I have 2 node packages, one called parent and one called child. child has a package.json with some scripts. Is it possible to include the scripts from child in the context of parent?

For example:

child/package.json:

"scripts":{
   "hello":"echo hello"
}

parent/package.json:

"dependencies":{"child":"1.0.0"}

Then from the command line in the parent directory:

parent> npm run hello //outputs hello

Answer 1

You can run child script from parent but not in parent context.

{scripts: "cd node_modules/child && npm run-script hello"}