If you want to start the server, wait for it to respond, and then run multiple test commands (and stop the server after they finish), you should be able to use && to separate the test commands:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "npm start",
    "test:unit": "mocha test.js",
    "test:e2e": "mocha e2e.js",
    "ci": "start-test 9000 'npm run test:unit && npm run test:e2e'"
  }
}

The above script ci after the localhost:9000 responds executes the npm run test:unit command. Then when it finishes it runs npm run test:e2e. If the first or second command fails, the ci script fails. Of course, your mileage on Windows might vary.

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 1.12.4 🎉

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