Originally Published: September 2016

Key Facts:

• NPM module for running multiple commands in separate windows
• Useful for easily running multiple watch commands whilst developing
• e.g. Running a Node Server with Nodemon and developing the front end with a gulp watch task
• Works on Windows and Mac OS
• See the repo here on GitHub

Install with

npm install multi-commands --save-dev

Or install globally with

npm install -g multi-commands

You can then run multiple commands using the multi command and enclosing your commands with double quotes:

multi "webpack --progress --colors --watch" "nodemon server.js --exec babel-node"