# Using Make & Makefiles to Automate your Frontend Workflow

DevFeed: [Using Make & Makefiles to Automate your Frontend Workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/using-make-makefiles-to-automate-your-frontend-workflow-31313.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://nystudio107.com/blog/using-make-makefiles-to-automate-your-frontend-workflow>)

Author: andrew@nystudio107.com (Andrew Welch)

Published: 2021-04-11T20:13:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [nystudio107 | Articles on modern web development.](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nystudio107-articles-on-modern-web-development.md>)

Topics: [make](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/make.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/automation.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>)

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## AI overview

A tutorial on using GNU Make and Makefiles to automate frontend web development. It explains how Make can provide a consistent project-specific CLI, hide underlying tooling, and simplify commands for development, builds, cleanup, and documentation.

## Source excerpt

Make is a build automation tool that's been used for decades to build software. Learn how you can leverage make to automate frontend web development