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Remove Makefile, put everything in npm scripts

See original GitHub issue

make is not available on Windows. NPM scripts however can run anywhere. Makefiles are also unnecessarily complicated for something simple as running mocha or eslint with a few options. Also, in npm scripts, you don’t have to specify the path of the binary. @stojanovic looking forward to your PR

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:19 (12 by maintainers)

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jonathanongcommented, May 14, 2016

who’s for and against this? my personal opinion: we should use npm scripts for wider compat, but not at the expense of having an unmanageable package.scripts object.

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dead-horsecommented, May 11, 2017

closed via #981

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