make has ‘rules’. These are groups of commands that can be executed by entering make RULE-NAME your terminal. In all Next projects we have rules such as install, run, deploy, etc.
In Makefile we have two main types of rules. Common and sub.
- Common rules are the public facing API of the Makefile. Developers/CI should run these commands.
- Sub-rules are the inner, private workings of n-makefile. Developers/CI ought not to run these commands.
- If we permit the rule to be overwritten it may end with % instead of its final letter, allowing it to be overwritten without producing warnings. (this is a hack, of course, and means we have to be careful about how we name our common rules!)
- By convention, app/component Makefiles make call commonrulename-super from inside their override to run the parent common rule functionality.
- Include a comment using the following convention for it to be automatically parsed by the
helprule:
rule-nam%: ## rule-name: Rule description.- Name must match the directory name they generate, if they generate a directory
- Otherwise,
_snake_case_is_usedwith a_prefix - The name should match the pattern _commonrulename_subrulename. E.g. _run_pa11y
- Try to end each rule with a friendly
@$(DONE) - For npm dev dependencies, assume they're there (hope that the devDependencies bring them), optionally warn the developer to install them. Don't try to install them from
n-makefile.