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by mark_story 778 days ago
It can help abstract the differences you may have across projects. If you're on a team with many projects/repositories, having conventions across them all helps improve onboarding, cross-teamwork and promotes better dev ux. A really simple way to do this is make. It lets you have the common targets and convert them to the relevant target. This can become more useful as you write automation for CI and deployments for all your projects.