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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…

comment by phist_mcgee · 2022-12-20 · in Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

…out "naming issues", but there is already a pretty popular command runner with the name just: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by hobofan · 2022-12-19 · in What's New in Bazel 6.0

+1 for Justfiles[1]! They're a much saner alternative to makefiles with great shell support [1] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by phist_mcgee · 2022-09-27 · in GitHub Actions Pitfalls

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Justfile – A Makefile Alternative Written in Rust

story by drakerossman · 2022-09-19 · 0 comments

…usual flavor of makefile[6][7] in the repo. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32305300 [1]: https://github.com/casey/just [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ [3]: https://gitlab.com/mrman/randomneocity/-/blob/main/Justfile [4]:…

comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-09-18 · in Show HN: Randomneo.city – Browse Neocities at Random

…hard to scale it into something readable. If I started a new project I'd probably consider Just: https://github.com/casey/just (though I haven't had a chance to use it myself yet).

comment by bin_bash · 2022-08-21 · in An opinionated approach to GNU Make

Reminds me of just, sake or rucksack. https://github.com/casey/just https://github.com/alajmo/sake https://github.com/acritelli/rucksack

comment by broknbottle · 2022-08-18 · in Show HN: shortcommand – Easily run a set of commands quickly using a YAML file

…artificially back the target by a dummy file in Make (which your example doesn't do here e.g.). [1] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by natrys · 2022-08-12 · in The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles

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

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)

…(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)

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

…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

comment by simonw · 2022-06-05 · in Ask HN: Examples of good technical writing?

https://github.com/casey/just

comment by bradwood · 2022-05-28 · in Ask HN: Any Good Make Alternatives?

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Just: A command with config syntax inspired by make

story by kristianpaul · 2022-04-13 · 1 comment

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Just a Command Runner

story by pimlottc · 2022-04-09 · 0 comments

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.

comment by nicoburns · 2022-03-14 · in Why I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts

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Just 1.0.0

story by _han · 2022-02-23 · 0 comments

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Just: Handy way to save and run project-specific commands

story by ingve · 2022-02-03 · 0 comments

…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

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Just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands

story by michidk · 2022-01-29 · 0 comments

…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…

comment by dividedbyzero · 2022-01-28 · in How did I run that code again? Tools to help recall

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

…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.

comment by pdimitar · 2021-12-28 · in Redo: A recursive, general-purpose build system

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)

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Just a Command Runner

story by sbt567 · 2021-10-30 · 0 comments

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Just – a command runner [make alternative]

story by gilad · 2021-07-15 · 0 comments

…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

…and improvements over make, and it's written in rust! Commands are specified in a justfile. [0] https://github.com/casey/just

comment by h8 · 2021-04-26 · in Show HN: Paragon: A command line benchmarking utility for Python code

…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)

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

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

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Show HN: Just, a command runner written in Rust

story by rodarmor · 2021-02-14 · 2 comments

…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

…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

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

…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?

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Just – a handy way to save and run project-specific commands

story by michaelsbradley · 2020-09-02 · 0 comments

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Just: A Make Alternative in Rust

story by zaiste · 2020-08-11 · 0 comments

…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

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Just - a command runner inspired by make

story by rencire · 2020-05-13 · 0 comments

…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

comment by snake_case · 2020-01-03 · in Show HN: A CLI task runner defined by a markdown file

…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.

comment by mmgutz · 2019-12-18 · in Show HN: Run – Easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers

Looked it up: https://github.com/casey/just Very nice after a quick look. Too bad it's not as common as `make`.

comment by feep · 2019-11-18 · in The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile

Looks like it's just just. https://github.com/casey/just

comment by IshKebab · 2019-05-20 · in Show HN: Oya – New projects set up lightning fast

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Just a command runner

story by snake_case · 2019-01-22 · 0 comments

…focus on building C program. It has clunky syntax and many quirks. Just is just taks runner ;) [1]: https://github.com/casey/just

comment by TeddyDD · 2019-01-20 · in Show HN: Task – A simple build tool written in Go

…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

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…

comment by TeddyDD · 2017-10-09 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust

…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