简单地说，npm就是节点包管理器 NPX是运行NPM包的可执行版本

这里有一个NPX的例子:NPX cowsay hello

如果您将其输入到bash终端，您将看到结果。这样做的好处是npx临时安装了cowsay。没有包装污染，因为cowsay不是永久安装的。这对于想要避免包装污染的一次性包装非常有用。

正如在其他回答中提到的，npx在运行前需要安装并配置包的情况下也非常有用(使用npm)。例如，不用使用npm来安装和配置json。包文件，然后调用配置的运行命令，只需使用NPX代替。一个真实的例子: create-react-app my-app

NPM是用来安装包的工具，NPX是用来执行包的工具。 如果你想通过npm运行一个包，那么你必须在你的包中指定这个包。并在本地安装它。 npx-一个包不需要安装就可以执行。它是一个npm包运行器，所以如果任何包还没有安装，它会自动安装它们。

NPM与NPX的区别如下:

i) NPM用于安装包，NPX用于执行包。

ii)由于npm的缘故，安装的包必须被照顾，因为它是全局安装的，而npx使用的包不需要被照顾，因为它们不是全局安装的。

NPX:

从https://www.futurehosting.com/blog/npx-makes-life-easier-for-node-developers-plus-node-vulnerability-news/:

Web developers can have dozens of projects on their development machines, and each project has its own particular set of npm-installed dependencies. A few years back, the usual advice for dealing with CLI applications like Grunt or Gulp was to install them locally in each project and also globally so they could easily be run from the command line. But installing globally caused as many problems as it solved. Projects may depend on different versions of command line tools, and polluting the operating system with lots of development-specific CLI tools isn’t great either. Today, most developers prefer to install tools locally and leave it at that. Local versions of tools allow developers to pull projects from GitHub without worrying about incompatibilities with globally installed versions of tools. NPM can just install local versions and you’re good to go. But project specific installations aren’t without their problems: how do you run the right version of the tool without specifying its exact location in the project or playing around with aliases? That’s the problem npx solves. A new tool included in NPM 5.2, npx is a small utility that’s smart enough to run the right application when it’s called from within a project. If you wanted to run the project-local version of mocha, for example, you can run npx mocha inside the project and it will do what you expect. A useful side benefit of npx is that it will automatically install npm packages that aren’t already installed. So, as the tool’s creator Kat Marchán points out, you can run npx benny-hill without having to deal with Benny Hill polluting the global environment. If you want to take npx for a spin, update to the most recent version of npm.

npm - JavaScript包管理器，就像:pip (Python)， Maven (Java)， NuGet (.NET)， Composer (PHP)， RubyGems (Ruby)，…

NPX—运行包的命令而不显式地安装它。

用例:

您不希望既全局安装包，也不希望在本地安装包。 您没有全局安装它的权限。 只是想测试一些命令。 有时，您希望在包中有一个脚本命令(生成、转换某些东西……)。Json来执行一些东西，而不需要将这些包作为项目的依赖项安装。

语法:

npx [options] [-p|--package <package>] <command> [command-arg]...

软件包可选:

npx   -p uglify-js         uglifyjs --output app.min.js app.js common.js
      +----------------+   +--------------------------------------------+
      package (optional)   command, followed by arguments

例如:

Start a HTTP Server      : npx http-server
Lint code                : npx eslint ./src
                         # Run uglifyjs command in the package uglify-js
Minify JS                : npx -p uglify-js uglifyjs -o app.min.js app.js common.js
Minify CSS               : npx clean-css-cli -o style.min.css css/bootstrap.css style.css
Minify HTML              : npx html-minifier index-2.html -o index.html --remove-comments --collapse-whitespace
Scan for open ports      : npx evilscan 192.168.1.10 --port=10-9999
Cast video to Chromecast : npx castnow http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerFun.mp4

更多关于命令的内容:

https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#bin https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2/blob/master/package.json#L17