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Nmake is a small program which wraps make to provide additional functionality, such as user-friendly help output, remote includes, and eventually more. It otherwise acts as a pass-through to standard make. Inspired by Mmake

Installation

Install globally

npm i -g nmake

Next add the following alias to your profile:

alias make=nmake

Features

Help output

Make's primary function is not to serve as a "task runner", however it's often used for that scenario due to its ubiquitous nature, and if you're already using it, why not! Make is however lacking a built-in mechanism for displaying help information.

Here's an example Makefile:

# Start the dev server.
#
# Note that the API server must
# also be running.
start:
	@gopherjs -m -v serve --http :3000 github.com/tj/docs/client
.PHONY: start

# Start the API server.
api:
	@go run server/cmd/api/api.go
.PHONY: api

# Display dependency graph.
deps:
	@godepgraph github.com/tj/docs/client | dot -Tsvg | browser
.PHONY: deps

# Display size of dependencies.
size:
	@gopherjs build client/*.go -m -o /tmp/out.js
	@du -h /tmp/out.js
	@gopher-count /tmp/out.js | sort -nr
.PHONY: size

Nmake provides a help command to display all target comments in short form:

$ alias make=nmake
$ make help

  start      Start the dev server.
  api        Start the API server.
  deps       Display dependency graph.
  size       Display size of dependencies.

The help <target> command is also supported to display long form:

$ make help start

  Start the dev server.

  Note that the API server must
  also be running.

The default behaviour of Make is of course preserved:

$ make
serving at http://localhost:3000 and on port 3000 of any available addresses

$ make size
...

Remote includes (WIP)

Links

• mmake Mmake

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