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		ReadTheLicense on Aug 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles This is standard in Node.js ecosystem and I love it. Each package has scripts in package.json that you can run with npm run [name], and some of these like start, test or build (and more) are standardized. It's really great DX.

patrickthebold on Aug 12, 2022 [–]

But it's npm, so when you switch to a java project, for example, you have different commands.

r3trohack3r on Aug 12, 2022 | [–]

Quite a few companies I've contracted with have lifted the pattern up into Bazel or Gnu Make - for node projects `make lint` can be a pass through.

In the project repo, either work.

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