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Rudolf Olah
Rudolf Olah

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Task Runners for Projects

Many projects need to run arbitrary commands and tasks.

In some projects, this is done by creating commands within an IDE such as JetBrains Intellij or VS Code for common tasks such as running tests or building a project.

JavaScript and TypeScript projects can use:

Depending on familiarity with the tools, the simplest task runners are:

Other task runners:

  • just, stores tasks in a file similar to Makefile format, has CLI completion support and loads .env files
  • mise, task runner that uses TOML files or standalone files

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