[berkes]

This sounds like what I do: Makefile with distinct steps: install, build, test, lint, deploy. Those steps call underlying tools, depending on the platform, framework, language.

E.g. in one project it will install rbenv, bundle, npm, yarn etc. Call Rake, npx, that odd docker wrapper, etc. Or deploy with git in one project and through capistrano or ansible in another.

As a dev, in daily mode, all you need is 'make lint && make test && make deploy'. All the underlying tools and their intricacies are only needed when it fails or when you want to change stuff.

[bluejekyll]

Yeah. Exactly. I do this when I think there will be users who don’t already have all the dev tools installed, and I don’t want them to have to download and install everything.