Makefiles: a standard for project tasks

I've been using Makefiles to create a standard CLI interface for all my projects, no matter what programming language and/or frameworks I'm using.

Makefiles are configuration files for GNU Make that define make tasks for a project (eg.: build, test, etc.).

I have projects in Bash, Elixir, Python, JavaScript, etc., and each of these require different commands to build, test, run, etc., so I've been using Makefiles to standardize how I run these tasks.

Below is a basic …

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