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Proposal: use npm run instead of the donejs command

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript

Research direction

Start by reading the issue discussion and comparing the donejs develop and donejs build commands with the corresponding npm scripts described in the report. Determine whether the project has decided to change or document this command usage; done is a documented, agreed direction rather than an unreviewed proposal.

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Description

discussion question

One of the things that first confused me when building a DoneJS app was that the special commands, like donejs develop and donejs build, are just running npm scripts[1]. When I didn’t know about npm scripts, the donejs commands seemed like “magic” (something specific to using the donejs cli), and when I did learn about npm scripts, then it seemed unnecessary to have to install the DoneJS cli to work in a project that was generated with DoneJS.

Is there a reason why we specifically encourage commands like donejs develop instead of npm run develop?

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JavaScript
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