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Automate your Python project with Makefile (2021)
I have been using Makefile for over 10 years in all of my projects, and here are some features I've always found lacking in Makefile:
1. There is no way to display documentation for commands and accepted parameters. Yes, you can write a special task that will display comments, but you have to copy it from project to project.
2. The need to pass named parameters when calling tasks. I want to write `make serve localhost 3000` instead of `make serve bind=localhost port=3000`
3. I've always had the need in different projects to use the same commands, so I had to copy tasks from project to project. I need a central place with commands that I can apply to any project.
4. The ability to write tasks in different languages. In some cases, it's easier to write in Python or TypeScript/Deno.
5. And most importantly, it is difficult to write commands in Makefile that can be used in different environments. For example, I need to run commands on different groups of servers: production and staging. This could look like: `make production TASK1 TASK2` or `make stage TASK1 TASK2`. In other words, the production/stage task sets up the parameters for executing tasks in a specific environment. It might be possible to call commands in this way with Makefile, but it seems too complicated.
As a result, I decided to write my own utility for task automation: https://github.com/devrc-hub/devrc
It solves all of the above problems and has other interesting features and also written in Rust .
- devrc: Task automation tool with embedded Deno runtime for developers written in Rust
- Task automation tool with embedded Deno runtime for developers written in Rust
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devrc: task automation tool for developers written in Rust
I create some examples with loops and filters:
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Task
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Show HN: Workflow Orchestrator in Golang
So many tools in this space! This one looks a little bit like go-task, but it seems maybe better for production workflows because if timeout support, while go-task seems more aimed to command line work/makefile replacement.
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https://github.com/go-task/task
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
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- Task: A task runner / alternative to GNU Make
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Using Make β writing less Makefile
A similar tool is `task` https://taskfile.dev/ . It is quite capable and also a single executable. I've grown to quite like it.
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Whatβs with DevOps engineers using `make` of all things?
check out tasks - a bit of a learning curve but arguably more powerful imo
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Go Development with Hot Reload Using Taskfile
That's when I came across taskfile.dev. Task is an automation tool designed to be more accessible than other options, such as GNU Make.
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Poetry (Packaging) in motion
Full disclosure, I did not review Conda or Hatch fully. Not that there is anything explicitly wrong with either of them. Conda is too specific to the scientific community for my general taste. Hatch seems to go well with Conda and also uses the PyProject manifest as well. It's nice that it gives you several built in tools, similar to commit hooks, but I tend to like to roll my own via a Taskfile and run them with Poetry.
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Building RESTful API with Hexagonal Architecture in Go
Taskfile is a tool for streamlining repetitive development tasks. It helps automate activities like building, testing, and deploying applications. Unlike Makefile, Taskfile uses YAML for configuration, making it more readable and user-friendly.
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We built the fastest CI in the world. It failed
9. We test everything with another promotion which runs make targets which build docker containers to run python scripts (pytest)
This is also built by a complicated web of wildcarded makefile targets, which need to be interoperable and support a few if/else cases for specific components.
My plan is to migrate all of this to something simpler and more straightforward, or at least more maintainable, which is honestly probably going to turn into taskfile[0] instead of makefiles, and then simple python scripts for the glue that ties everything together or does more complex logic.
My hope is that it can be more straightforward and easier to maintain, with more component-ized logic, but realistically every step in that labyrinthine build process (and that's just the open-source version!) came from a decision made by a very talented team of engineers who know far more about the process and the product than I do. At this point I'm wondering if it would make 'more sense' to replace it with a giant python script of some kind and get access to all the logic we need all at once (it would not).
[0] https://taskfile.dev/
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Exploring GCP With Terraform: Setting Up The Environment And Project
task - a task runner and a replacement for make
What are some alternatives?
rab - Rusty Armor Builds - Monster Hunter Rise Armor Set Creation Tool
just - π€ Just a command runner
doit - task management & automation tool
cargo-make - Rust task runner and build tool.
goreleaser - Deliver Go binaries as fast and easily as possible
move-links - CLI utility to move (or rename) your files to a new location and redirect all of its symbolic links, to the new path
boilr - :zap: boilerplate template manager that generates files or directories from template repositories
erdtree - A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.
JobRunner - Framework for performing work asynchronously, outside of the request flow
mask - π A CLI task runner defined by a simple markdown file
taskctl - Concurrent task runner, developer's routine tasks automation toolkit. Simple modern alternative to GNU Make π§°