just VS Taskfile

Benefit is you can just type the command, no need to prepend pyqwe or anything.

See also justfile for a non-python specific tool https://github.com/casey/just

This is an interesting approach. These days I have completely switched to just[0] tool for similar use case.

[0]: https://github.com/casey/just

# Palindrome project Project used to explain my view on a django project architecture ## Tools, libs, etc. Some time related files. Versions on Poetry. - [Python](https://www.python.org/) Programming languange - [django-environ](https://django-environ.readthedocs.io) Manage .envs in Django - [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) Python packaging and dependency management - poetry.lock - pyproject.toml - [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) Web framework written in Python - [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) Manage containers for dev environment - compose.yaml - compose/dev/Dockerfile - compose/dev/start - .env - [Just](https://just.systems/) encapsulate commands for easier use - justfile ## Dev environment setup 1. Install Just, Docker and Poetry(opcional). 2. Copy .env.example to .env, no need for edtion. 3. Certified that docker is up and running 4. `$ just build` ## Run the server for development 1. Certified that docker is up and running 2. `$ just runserver` You can access on http://0.0.0.0:8000/

We heavily use Just at OpenSauced, a command runner utility, much like GNU’s “make”, for easily executing small scripts. This has enabled us to quickly onramp new team members or community members to our Go ecosystem since building and testing is as simple as “just build” or “just test”!

> If I had to submit one tip it would be to set everything up with a Makefile or similar.

If I had to submit a tip on top of yours, it's to use justfiles instead of Makefiles :-)

https://github.com/casey/just

If you’re going to use make, use just instead:

https://github.com/casey/just

My first thought was that that was dropping one of the main features of make.

On reflection though, the timestamp dependant part isn't really something used much nowadays apart from compiling C.

It'd be cool if it was an opt-in feature for just files so that it could actually function as a replacement for make in all cases.

I went looking in the docs and found this[0] which I'd missed last time I looked into justfiles.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#what-are-th...

I "hate" Makefiles, for building it's faster to use meson, zig build, cmake+ninja. For this use case, https://github.com/adriancooney/Taskfile is way more flexible and you don't need to mess with PHONY rules.

https://github.com/adriancooney/Taskfile - my favourite for its simplicity. A shell alias and a shell script with a function for each "job". No need to learn yet another tool when you just want to run a few pre-defined commands from a project's root. I think, if you're going to complain about make, then maybe all you really need is a shell script.

You want to use $@ rather than $* so you don't have to do double-quoting on arguments that have spaces in them. That said, I'm gonna steal this. Also if you like clever composability tricks check out Taskfiles, I've adopted them all over in my own code.

I was amazed to discover Taskfile. Didn't realise it was a copy of Make.

https://github.com/adriancooney/Taskfile