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section: cli-commands
title: npm-restart
description: Restart a package
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# npm-restart(1)
## Restart a package
### Synopsis
```bash
npm restart [-- <args>]
```
### Description
This restarts a package.
This runs a package's "stop", "restart", and "start" scripts, and associated
pre- and post- scripts, in the order given below:
1. prerestart
2. prestop
3. stop
4. poststop
5. restart
6. prestart
7. start
8. poststart
9. postrestart
### Note
Note that the "restart" script is run **in addition to** the "stop"
and "start" scripts, not instead of them.
This is the behavior as of `npm` major version 2. A change in this
behavior will be accompanied by an increase in major version number
### See Also
* [npm run-script](/cli-commands/npm-run-script)
* [npm scripts](/using-npm/scripts)
* [npm test](/cli-commands/npm-test)
* [npm start](/cli-commands/npm-start)
* [npm stop](/cli-commands/npm-stop)
* [npm restart](/cli-commands/npm-restart)
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