npm scripts - NPM "post" hook not firing for one command only

Question

Kinda baffled by this situation and would really appreciate if anyone can tell me what's going on!

I am working my way through this tutorial: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/04/express-api-backend-project-postgresql/ And encountering weird behavior at the point where the guide has me set up ESLint/Prettier.

Following this guide, I have my scripts for linting/formatting thus:

"scripts": {
    "lint": "./node_modules/.bin/eslint ./src",
    "pretty": "prettier --write "**/*.{js,json}"",
    "postpretty": "npm run lint --fix"
}

What I would assume would happen (and what the guide says should happen) is that if I run npm run pretty, it should execute both pretty and postpretty.

But it doesn't. What actually happens is that it runs pretty and then exits:

$ npm run pretty

> [email protected] pretty C:UsersmeDocuments\_ProgrammingGitHubproject-name
> prettier --write "**/*.{js,json}"

.eslintrc.json 47ms
nodemon.json 5ms
package-lock.json 304ms
package.json 39ms
srcapp.js 20ms
srcinwww.js 30ms
src
outesindex.js 10ms

No sign of the postpretty command being fired.

The incredibly baffling thing about this is that if I change pretty to a different word, everything works fine:

"scripts": {
    "lint": "./node_modules/.bin/eslint ./src",
    "blah": "prettier --write "**/*.{js,json}"",
    "postblah": "npm run lint"
},

$ npm run blah

> [email protected] blah C:UsersmeDocuments\_ProgrammingGitHubproject-name
> prettier --write "**/*.{js,json}"

.eslintrc.json 40ms
nodemon.json 4ms
package-lock.json 306ms
package.json 31ms
srcapp.js 19ms
srcinwww.js 29ms
src
outesindex.js 9ms

> [email protected] postblah C:UsersmeDocuments\_ProgrammingGitHubproject-name
> npm run lint


> [email protected] lint C:UsersmeDocuments\_ProgrammingGitHubproject-name
> eslint ./src

# followed by expected ESLint errors

What could I possibly have done to disable the post hook only if the script is called pretty? O.o Is there an npm setting hidden away somewhere that might have been enabled for that script name?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65651391/npm-post-hook-not-firing-for-one-command-only

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