Makefile

For virtually any software package or library we provide, we use Makefiles to abstract away language-specific tasks such as compiling or running behind simple targets. These targets can be run using make in the directory where the Makefile is located.

The most common targets are:

make build: builds a program by compiling or transpiling
make start: starts a program by first building it and then starting the program binary or script
make clean: cleans up dependency and build artifacts
make test: runs specific tests for this program

Targets can be added or removed based on the structure of the program. Many targets are also used in service.yaml commands and CI/CD workflows.