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by dgb23 1212 days ago
It's not reinventing anything. It's just avoiding complexity until necessary.
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Writing custom shell scripts to avoid complexity usually achieves the opposite result. I can Google npm errors, but not why a custom shell script fails.

Second, anyone reading the repo is now expected to understand not 1 but 2 languages.

Finally, the shell script performs basic tasks that npm does out of the box.

Because of above reasons I think this solution is needlessly complex.