Markdown-based task runner – 'saku'
I made a task-runner called saku, based on markdown syntax. Tagged with javascript, taskrunner, makefile, diy.
Markdown-based task runner – 'saku' launched on May 14, 2018 with 7 votes, #1,276 of 2,986 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
What it does
Because I've been using JavaScript both at work and hobby always, I use npm run-script as my task runner. run-script has some flaws such that it's unable to be documented well in a decent way, or that it's a little hard to read because it's written in JSON file. But in my opinion, it's sufficient tool for defining the necessary tasks with the support of the tools like npm-run-all , cross-env etc. One day I started using terraform for our team's infrastructure management and I was setting up the git repository for it. I was searching the web for how to set up the terraform project and many people seem using Makefile for organizing the commands in it. I thought it was a good idea to use task…from dev.to
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