Why I Prefer Makefiles Over package.json Scripts for Node.js Projects

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/programming

Our great sponsors
  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • rimraf

    A `rm -rf` util for nodejs

  • It's somewhat unfortunate because there is wasted effort in the node.js world to provide javascript (or C++ native module) equivalents to unix commands, like the rimraf package. It's a bit silly at this point that npm doesn't just say in the spec that it only supports POSIX systems — all of these tools are easily accessible from Windows and there's not much reason anymore not to do dev from WSL.

  • just

    🤖 Just a command runner

  • Instead of makefiles I prefer new a CLI tool named just

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

    SurveyJS logo
  • pynt

    A pynt of Python build.

  • Use pynt.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts