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I’ve used make like this in the past, it’s handy. But zsh auto suggestion obviates the extra maintenance IMO. I type the command one time and it’s in my history. So my common dev actions are more flexibly maintained by recency than editing a file.

You could say the Makefile also serves as a form of (not great) documentation.

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I use it for documentation and simplifying my build flow.

I code in more than a few languages and frameworks, but I don't always memorize the magic build commands for each one.

In my make file, I simply create `make build` and it installs npm, pip,

I run `make clean` and node_modules is deleted or DerivedData are gone.

Otherwise, I'd dump this documentation in an unstructured ReadMe.md.

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