Is it possible to run package.json scripts from a Node script? - node.js

Question

I have several task in my package.json like:
"scripts": {
"test": "jest",
"test:ci": "jest --runInBand --no-cache --watch false --coverage true",
"test:codecov": "codecov",
"tsc:check": "tsc --noEmit",
"prettier:check": "pretty-quick --staged"
.
.
. // a lot more here
}
I am trying to build a build script that depends on those tasks but write it as a new script in package.json is too verbose and hard to read.
Is there some way to run those scripts from a build.js file? so I can chain/redo those tasks and also get some error handling.

Answer 1

Based on #anh-nguyen comment I did this initial raw structure on how to be able to do what I wanted I hope this helps somebody.
Notice that instead of process and process.exec I am using shelljs because I already had it as dependency but you could change them if needed.
// tslint:disable:no-string-literal
const shell = require('shelljs');
const path = require('path');
const rootDir = process.cwd();
const distBundlesDir = path.join(rootDir, 'dist-bundles');
const objectWithRawScripts = require(path.join(rootDir, 'package.json')).scripts;
const packageScripts = {
build: objectWithRawScripts['build'],
prettierCheck: objectWithRawScripts['prettier:check'],
tscCheck: objectWithRawScripts['tsc:check'],
};
function runScript(scriptToRun) {
try {
shell.echo(`Running ${scriptToRun}`);
shell.exec(scriptToRun);
} catch (e) {
shell.echo('!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!');
shell.echo(`there was an error with ${scriptToRun}`);
console.error(e);
shell.echo('!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!');
return false;
}
return true;
}
shell.echo('Init Tasks');
runScript(packageScripts.prettierCheck);
runScript(packageScripts.tscCheck);