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Peter Kühne

With the latest version of node, you can just do npx mocha instead of having to add ./node_modules/.bin/ to your PATH.

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Nick Taylor

Nice! I had heard of npx, but have not read up on it yet. Guess I don't need to hack my path anymore ;). npx is since npm 5.0?

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Nick Taylor

I think the lazy in me still likes writing it sans npx ;).

I found the Medium article introducing npx for anyone who stumbles across this discussion, Introducing npx: an npm package runner.

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Nick Taylor

I see you can do other cool stuff with it though like npm https://gist.github.com/zkat/4bc19503fe9e9309e2bfaa2c58074d32. I'm gonna take it for a spin.