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Another library frustration: is there a standard Make-like task runner tool for #Node? 10 years ago Grunt and Gulp were standard for this, but they're horribly out of date now and not compatible with ES6 imports. There are tools in other languages, like go-task, but I can't find anything similar in JS.

Sometimes the hardest part of coding isn’t the code, it’s the environment.

- Conflicting #Python or #Node versions
- Broken dependencies
- "Almost working" READMEs
- Config issues

Enter Flox: a virtual env manager for developers who want things to *just work*.

✅ Set up environments in seconds
✅ Install packages & services
✅ Share setups without breaking things

Teaser below — full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=X-foRA-G7M

Hoo boy am I tired of seeing messages in my browser's JavaScript from some deep transitive dependency of the app I work on, saying "We're about to remove support for <feature that a slightly less nested transitive dependency uses>, sucks to be you."

This whole developer ecosystem is a nightmare of endless compatibility problems, 90% of them trivially avoidable with a moment's thought.

#Node#NPM#React