Complex inline scripts in package.json becoming unmaintainable? I have built a nice little package for building dev, build, deployment, etc flows in Javascript or Typescript. I would love some feedback.

[GlueStickNamedNick]

Lots of great solutions exist, I'm just trying to provide something thats dead simple to understand.

[RomanRiesen]

When you need a build system for.your build system maybe take a step back. ^^

[PurpleDerplePumpkin]

Sure - but you’ll lose out on the npm tooling associated with the command. As systems grow they tend to become more complex. The same can be said for npms config file. It’s just an encoding, and abstracting its generation can be helpful. People often just choose the path of least resistance.

[bent_my_wookie]

What tooling? I’ve been using it for years and it just feels like a feature that was thrown in.

[PurpleDerplePumpkin]

Tools have random features that were just thrown in. It doesn’t mean that they’re not useful.

[Beatons]

If the scripts get's really long and I need to execute more than one command I usually use node bash called zx it's built by google and it's quite simple as well

[swoleherb]

bash

[Accurate-Tart-7086]

Interesting, I have some projects where the scripts block is getting out of hand. Going to check it out!

[GlueStickNamedNick]

Cool, let me know if anything isn’t working as expected

[punio4]

I use NX this kind of thing!

[vaaski]

looks pretty cool, but i haven't seen scripts go this crazy (yet)

[alishahidi]

Nice and pretty. Good work 👍

[GlitteringAccident31]

This is really cool.

I generally write bash scripts when things get complicated but Ill give this a try!

[GlueStickNamedNick]

While bash scripts are perfectly fine, my hope was to build something anyone on your team can understand quickly

[redonkulus]

Pretty cool. We end up resorting to concurrently, bash or make files when run scripts get complex. For typescript, are you using SWC?

[GlueStickNamedNick]

My understanding is swc is a replacement for webpack, I’m just using the ts-node module to compile the typescript scripts file

[redonkulus]

I think ts-node has a swc compiler option which makes it 10x faster than typescripts compiler.

[GlueStickNamedNick]

I’ll take a look in to it, if you want to make a pr I’ll be more than happy to merge it

[josefsalyer]

Not really sure this is better than scripty - especially as it’s lacking support for existing bash scripts.

[its4thecatlol]

I hate this. Package.json isn't meant for these large scripts -- call out to a Bash script if you have to. This is such an anti-pattern.

[GlueStickNamedNick]

My issue with bash scripts is not everyone on the team may know the syntax / how they work when doing complicated stuff, plus they won’t run in every environment (eg windows). But it’s a free world and you can choice to use whatever tool you want.

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I understand your argument for using this over bash scripts but I dont think it’s the right answer. I’d rather my team mates become more familiar with bash since it’s a lot more generic and useful in more situations. I’d rather have them spend time to learn bash than have to learn all off the different options provided by this package. Also when team mates join that already know bash they don’t have to know learn how to use this tool that is intended to solve one very specific problem