When developing new projects on my laptop, I often run some commands over and over again. Regardless of how far you’ve gone with your CI/CD pipelines, running commands locally without resorting to becoming a bash ninja can be pretty easy with… just!

just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands

It’s a command-line tool that lets you define some commands to run (called recipes), in the form of a Makefile-inspired syntax. It even allows you to define dependencies between the various tasks of your justfile. It runs across all environments (Mac, Linux, Windows), and is quick to install. It loads .env files in which you can define variables specific to your project (other developers can have the same justfile but have variables specific for their projects)