cli: implement node --run <script-in-package-json>

[anonrig]

This is a more up to date implementation of @joyeecheung's original pull-request.

Co-authored-by: Daniel Lemire

The purpose of this pull-request to offer a fast alternative to npm run xxx. With this pull-request, node supports node run test which executes test command inside package.json scripts.

Locally the overhead that node run <cmd> adds to running cmd is ~200ms less than npm run <cmd>

TODO

• Add documentation
• Add tests
• Add node_modules/.bin to PATH.
• Pass additional arguments to execSync

Benchmark

❯ hyperfine './out/Release/node run test' 'npm run test' -i
Benchmark 1: ./out/Release/node run test
  Time (mean ± σ):      29.3 ms ±   1.1 ms    [User: 23.2 ms, System: 3.1 ms]
  Range (min … max):    27.6 ms …  33.2 ms    97 runs

  Warning: Ignoring non-zero exit code.

Benchmark 2: npm run test
  Time (mean ± σ):     185.7 ms ±   9.2 ms    [User: 136.7 ms, System: 30.3 ms]
  Range (min … max):   174.7 ms … 212.9 ms    15 runs

  Warning: Ignoring non-zero exit code.

Summary
  ./out/Release/node run test ran
    6.34 ± 0.40 times faster than npm run test

[nodejs-github-bot]

Review requested:

• @nodejs/startup

[tniessen]

I don't have a strong opinion on this, but I do share some concerns:

• npm does set many environment variables for scripts, and this already causes headaches when running through yarn, for example. It seems that node run might further complicate things by adding yet another implementation.
• scripts are often spawned recursively, e.g., npm run foo && npm run bat. It doesn't matter much how fast node run is if recursive calls don't use it.

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CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/58167/

[GeoffreyBooth]

Not necessary for this PR, but it would be great to add a benchmark for this.

[bnb]

@ruyadorno's comment #52190 (comment) I feel the unanswered questions I found while going through the 100+ comments have been sufficiently answered and am happy to remove my block on this.

[bnb]

@GeoffreyBooth

Not necessary for this PR, but it would be great to add a benchmark for this.

I'd love to learn how to add benchmarks by doing this, happy to pair with someone on this if anyone's interested 👍🏻

[ShogunPanda]

Other than the --run updates everywhere, it LGTM!
Nice job!

[nodejs-github-bot]

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/58183/

[nodejs-github-bot]

CI: https://ci.nodejs.org/job/node-test-pull-request/58194/

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Landed in 128c60d

[LuiSauter]

nice