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🤖 Just a command runner

151 mentions on Hacker News by 120 people: 21 stories, 130 comments · first 2016-11-10 · latest 2026-10-21

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  1. For a task runner I really like just and its Justfile format: https://github.com/casey/just It is heavily inspired by make but doesn't focus on the DAG stuff (but does support tasks and dependencies). Crucially it has a much better user…
    comment by qbasic_forever · 2022-08-12 · in The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
  2. I use "just" for this purpose, and I'm very happy with it: https://github.com/casey/just
    comment by busfahrer · 2022-08-01 · in A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (2017)
  3. …(inspired this post -- HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32300356 ) - https://github.com/casey/just (Make with less footguns, written in Rust) [EDIT] A side-note -- I personally use Make with just all stacks I create with (front
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-08-01 · in A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (2017)
  4. I really liked the Just README recently: https://github.com/casey/just/blob/master/README.md
    comment by simonw · 2022-07-15 · in Technical Writing for Developers
  5. …README for the just tool the other day - very thorough, answered all of my questions, fun to read: https://github.com/casey/just/blob/master/README.md
  6. https://github.com/casey/just
    comment by bradwood · 2022-05-28 · in Ask HN: Any Good Make Alternatives?
  7. I would like to call attention to `just` ( https://github.com/casey/just ) which is a modern take on "make if we didn't have to keep it backwards compatible", and more focussed on just task running rather than tracking dependencies.
  8. …as a build system that tracks dependencies between files, I highly recommend using `just` instead: https://github.com/casey/just It has this functionality built-in, and avoids a lot of Make's idiosyncrasies. (Not affiliated, just a fan.)
    comment by cytzol · 2022-01-31 · in Autodocumenting Makefiles
  9. …this for ages, but its syntax really shows its age in a bad way. A while ago I switched to just ( https://github.com/casey/just ), which is a simple command runner with less unnecessary cruft (for my use case as a command runner) and a…
  10. Instead, I highly recommend https://github.com/casey/just . Add these two lines to the top to use node executables and load the dotenv: ``` set dotenv-load := true export PATH := "./node_modules/.bin:" + env_var('PATH') ```
    comment by kespindler · 2022-01-25 · in Show HN: Run NPM Scripts with .envs
  11. …on your mastery in the black arts. Now obviously I'm not managing huge projects but nowadays https://github.com/casey/just serves me just fine for everything I need.
  12. or if you prefer rust, there's just. https://github.com/casey/just/ better yet, use both and just doit
    comment by a-dub · 2021-12-16 · in Tqdm (Python)
  13. …I also used to do this until I switched out Make by Just[1]. I find it worth a recommendation. https://github.com/casey/just
    comment by manuel_w · 2021-07-11 · in Show HN: Print a WiFi Login Card
  14. …and improvements over make, and it's written in rust! Commands are specified in a justfile. [0] https://github.com/casey/just
  15. …I use it for docker builds, or pretty much as a wrapper around any polyglot repos I create. [1]: https://github.com/casey/just
    comment by catlifeonmars · 2021-04-24 · in Makefiles (2016)
  16. https://github.com/casey/just#janus they end up here https://github.com/casey/janus/tree/master/fetch
    comment by candied_scarf · 2021-03-11 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
  17. Have you seen Just? https://github.com/casey/just It's make-like but supposedly improves on some of the arcane aspects of make (I can't judge how successful it is at that as I've never used make in anger).
    comment by nicoburns · 2021-03-09 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
  18. …so I think the problem is the choice of name. "just" is a utility designed to execute programs: https://github.com/casey/just#just
    comment by gregwebs · 2020-12-27 · in Getting rid of NPM scripts
  19. …case, especially with the documentation features and ability for commands to accept arguments. [1] https://github.com/casey/just
    comment by jordwest · 2020-12-23 · in Phony Targets
  20. I saw that the cost/benefit ratio of adopting https://github.com/casey/just in non-trivial projects was worth it as an alternative to bash scripts in script folders.
    comment by thenonameguy · 2020-09-22 · in No script is too simple
  21. …are now, so I would recommend Hashi’s stuff as of today. However, I recently discovered “just” ( https://github.com/casey/just ) which is a good parity of ansible but minus the cumbersome YAML and the idempotent aspect which is mostly…
    comment by poletopole · 2020-09-15 · in Ask HN: Is Micro-PaaS Dead?
  22. …a command runner (for example there is no standard way to list out the available commands). [just]( https://github.com/casey/just ) is a tool that feels similar to make but is designed explicitly for the purpose of running commands. I…
    comment by gregwebs · 2020-05-15 · in Polyglot Makefiles
  23. …global system utility for handy commands and automation tasks. Happy to answer any questions! [1]: https://github.com/casey/just [2]: https://github.com/egoist/maid
  24. …I would switch to either of these if I wasn't so heavily invested in my own tool. [just]( https://github.com/casey/just ) [task]( https://github.com/go-task/task ) I'm not sure what Run does that the two above don't.
  25. Looked it up: https://github.com/casey/just Very nice after a quick look. Too bad it's not as common as `make`.
  26. Looks like it's just just. https://github.com/casey/just
  27. …focus on building C program. It has clunky syntax and many quirks. Just is just taks runner ;) [1]: https://github.com/casey/just
  28. …binary install) and it uses a make inspired syntax but aims to avoid some of Make's issues. [0] https://github.com/casey/just
    comment by timlyo · 2018-04-24 · in Fast website link checker in Go
  29. I like tool called "just". It's simple command runner inspired by make. https://github.com/casey/just One could argue that tool like this makes no sense since make is installed almost everywhere but I'm already using fish shell so one more…
  30. …in a different directory - run with a different interpreter - has better error messages [1] https://github.com/casey/just
    comment by curun1r · 2017-09-20 · in Golang: Don't be afraid of makefiles