Just and Task: Modern Alternatives to Make That Don't Make You Cry

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Almost every project I touch accumulates a pile of little commands: build the thing, run the tests, regenerate the assets, deploy to staging. For decades the reflex answer was a Makefile, and for decades a Makefile has been quietly torturing everyone who isn’t compiling C. Tab-versus-space errors that print nothing useful. Recipes that fail silently because each line runs in its own shell. Variable expansion that fights you because Make has its own $ and the shell has another. Make is a brilliant build tool wearing a task-runner costume, and the costume doesn’t fit. This article is about two tools — just and Task — that fit much better.

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Just and Task: Modern Alternatives to Make That Don't Make You Cry