Build & Bundling

NPM scripts are a powerful and lightweight way to automate common development tasks such as building, testing, and deploying applications directly from the package.json file. They eliminate the need for complex build tools for many projects. However, developers often face challenges such as script execution failures, environment-specific issues, dependency mismatches, path resolution problems, and performance bottlenecks in complex build workflows. Troubleshooting NPM scripts effectively requires an understanding of Node.js environments, shell command execution, and dependency management practices.

Make is a classic build automation tool used to manage and execute complex workflows, particularly for compiling and linking software projects. It uses Makefiles to define build dependencies and commands. Despite its longevity and simplicity, users frequently encounter challenges such as dependency resolution failures, syntax errors in Makefiles, incorrect environment variable handling, parallel execution issues, and portability problems across platforms. Troubleshooting Make effectively requires an in-depth understanding of dependency graphs, variable scoping, shell interactions, and GNU Make extensions.