Simple Frontend Builds With Makefiles

1 · Jordan West · April 20, 2015, midnight
Until recently, I assumed Makefiles were something only C/C++ and systems programmers touched. Surely there are better tools around now, like Rake and Cake, Ant and Jake, Maven, Grunt, Broccoli, Gulp. But the truth is Makefiles are not that complicated, and they are powerful. Anything you can do from the command line you can do with Makefiles. If you want to incorporate fancytemplateengine in your project, you don't need to search for and download (or write!) a grunt-contrib-fancytemplateengine...