How to continue running scripts defined in package.json in case one fails?

Question

I have this in package.json file:

{
 "name": "test demo",
 "version": "1.0.0",
 "description": "test demo scripts",
 "scripts": {
   "test:v1": "wdio src/resources/config/wdio.chrome.conf.js --spec test/Tests.spec.ts",
   "test:v2": "wdio src/resources/config/wdio.firefox.conf.js --spec test/Tests.spec.ts",

   "test": "npm run test:v1 && npm run test:v2"
   },

    ...
}

When run this command:

npm run test

then if test:v1 fails, then test:v2 script is not executed at all.
Is there a way to configure this so that all scripts run regardless if some of them failed?

EDIT: When I try this in package.json:

"test": "npm run test:v1 ; npm run test:v2"

Then I still don't get both scripts executed, just test:v1 gets executed with error.
This is what I get in the console:

C:\2020\demo>npm run test

> demo@1.0.0 test C:\2020\demo
> npm run test:v1 ; npm run test:v2

> demo@1.0.0 test:v1 C:\2020\demo
> wdio src/resources/config/wdio.chrome.conf.js --spec test/Tests.spec.ts ";" 
  "npm" "run" "test:v2"

Execution of 1 spec files started at 2020-06-12T15:16:42.936Z

[0-0] RUNNING in chrome - C:\2020\demo\Tests.spec.ts

... other log with failing tests ...

Spec Files:      0 passed, 1 failed, 1 total (100% completed) in 00:00:27

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! demo@1.0.0 test:v1: `wdio src/resources/config/wdio.chrome.conf.js --spec test/Tests.spec.ts ";" "npm" "run" "test:v2"`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the demo@1.0.0 test:v1 script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional 
logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-06- 
12T15_17_10_512Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! demo@1.0.0 test: `npm run test:v1 ; npm run test:v2`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the demo@1.0.0 test script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional 
logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-06- 
12T15_17_10_548Z-debug.log

If I try like this in package.json:

"test": "npm run test:v1; npm run test:v2"

Then I get this in the console:

npm ERR! missing script: test:v1;
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Did you mean one of these?
npm ERR!     test:v1
npm ERR!     test:v2

Thanks!

Answer 1

The solution for this differs depending on which OS you are using because NPM utilizes a different shell for running npm scripts.

• On *nix, (Linux, macOS, etc..), the default shell that npm utilizes for running npm scripts is sh.
• On Windows the default shell that npm utilizes for running npm scripts is cmd.exe.

---

Check which shell npm is using?

Using the npm config command you need to check the value of the script-shell setting. To do this you can run the following command:

npm config get script-shell

It will typically return/print either the pathname to cmd.exe or sh - depending on which OS your using.

---

Solution:

1. If you're running Windows and the default shell is cmd.exe

   Then change your test script in package.json to the following:

   "test": "npm run test:v1 & npm run test:v2"
   

   Note the double ampersand (&&) has been replace with a single ampersand (&).

Or...

2. If you're running *nix and the default shell is sh

   Then change your test script in package.json to the following:

   "test": "npm run test:v1; npm run test:v2"
   

   Note the double ampersand (&&) has been replace with a single semi-colon (;).