running two simultanious npm script with & fails on windows

[MylesBorins]

Only one command runs, second one never starts. This is especially painful if neither command has an "ending state" such as a watch command or a dev server

[othiym23]

That's because cmd.exe doesn't have job control like Unix shells. Because it doesn't know how to run a task in the background, I think it just treats & the same as &&. This is a limitation of the Windows platform, and not something that can be hacked around in npm.

If you need background task execution, you're probably going to have to write a little JavaScript task runner that uses child processes (and handles starting or stopping processes).

[MylesBorins]

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[MylesBorins]

git bash on windows 8 was running the command as expected when not wrapped in an npm script.

That being said... this is totally a rabbit hole not worth going down.

[rofrol]

Use parallelshell. In package.json:

"dev": "parallelshell \"npm run watch\" \"npm run live-server\""

Then run it:

npm run dev

Working example