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Why use Make if they already use Gulp? Why not put that in `package.json`'s `script` stanza? And never ever use Make as a script runner without declaring the targets `.PHONY`, there will be a day when somebody has a directory (or file) named `build` or `dev` in their project root.


Because my Rust, Python, bash, Perl, etc. projects aren't impressed with the `package.json` file I wave at them. Especially before I've installed npm or any other JS runtime on my system (let alone Gulp).

As the article said, it's generally installed everywhere as soon as you install any dev-related stuff. So is bash, but it's a little clunkier for very basic usage. (`if [[ $1 = build ]]; then...`)




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