Running NPM tasks in parallel

You can run multiple NPM script tasks in parallel. This is great for tasks like running build watchers. Just use the bash construct & to put each command in the background, then finally add wait so they can be terminated with ^C. The final syntax would be:

command1 & command2 & wait

In practice, this looks like so:

{
  "scripts": {
    "watch": "npm run watch:js & npm run watch:css & wait",
    "watch:js": "watchify -v -t babelify -s Editor index.js -o dist/index.js",
    "watch:css": "stylus -w css/style.styl -o dist/index.css",
  }
}