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Throwing my hat in the ring for Justfile. It's basically a streamlined make.

https://github.com/casey/just

Where it really shines are in places like monorepos where you may have many inter-related setup scripts, build commands or helper utilities.

You define all of your commands in one file (or multiple if you want a hierarchy) and can run commands from any subdirectory.

eg. You have a monorepo with a web server, and also a react-native app in separate directories, you can call `just build-app` in the web directory, or call just `start-server` when your terminal's current directory is 7 diretories deep in the mobile directory.

The amount of time I have saved cd'ing around has honestly been amazing. It's worth it's weight in gold, especially on large projects.




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