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Makefiles for Web Work (2022)


A set of recipes for using Makefiles for web development.

These days, web projects involve many of the same steps: installing node_modules, running linters and tests, starting dev servers, and compiling files with esbuild or Rollup. I find this makes it easy to store secret token for one-off tasks like API calls or just avoiding installing a dotenv dependency into my projects: Rather than manually building containers, installing them, and configuring dev server options, I composed them into some commands that made working on the project a lot easier.

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