Welcome to the rake world, where complexity meets simplicity and sanity is restored to your multi-project universe.

Think of rake as a single make to rule them all – it's the beautifully simple solution that lets you stop wrestling with build orchestration and get back to what actually matters: your code.

At its heart, rake is just a clever Makefile that knows how to talk to other Makefiles. That's it. No fancy frameworks, no mysterious magic, no PhD required. Just good old battle-tested make, git and bash doing what they've done reliably for decades.

Simple:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MetaBarj0/rake/refs/heads/main/scripts/install | bash

It will install rakeup in your user directory and you'll be able to rake everything:

• mkdir my-fancy-monorepo
• cd my-fancy-monorepo
• rakeup

It'll create a brand new git repository. All you need is to create some stuff in the subs directory. Each sub being a part of your project (frontend, backend, git submodule, whatever...). The must is you have a Makefile in the sub you create.

Perfect for the modern mono-repo reality: Got a repo mixing Python microservices, React frontends, Go APIs, and maybe some Rust sprinkled in? rake doesn't care. Each sub-project lives in its own directory with its own Makefile, and rake orchestrates them like a conductor with a very chill attitude.

Zero mental overhead: rake is designed to be invisible infrastructure. It's the boring, reliable tool that Just Works™ so you can focus on your actually interesting problems. No new concepts to learn, no configuration files to maintain, no surprise behaviors.

Compound targets made easy: Want to test everything in your backend project? make backend test. Want to build just the frontend? make frontend build. Want to deploy the whole shebang? make frontend deploy && make backend deploy. rake gives you the power to compose complex operations from simple, predictable building blocks.

Battle-tested foundation: Built on git, make and bash – tools that have been solving build problems since before most of us were born. If it works on one Unix-like system, it works everywhere. No runtime dependencies, no version conflicts, no surprises.

rake believes that build orchestration should be simple, predictable, and boring. It's not trying to reinvent the wheel or be the next big thing in DevOps. It's just trying to make your life a little easier when you're juggling multiple projects that need to work together.

In a world of over-engineered build systems and complex CI/CD pipelines, rake is the refreshingly simple alternative that lets you get back to building cool stuff instead of fighting with your tooling.

Ready to enter the rake world? Your future self will thank you for choosing simplicity.

• provide abbreviation for subs for user user convenience
  • For instance, if there is only one sub beginning with the letter n such as nideovim, the user can type either:
    • make nideovim ...
    • make n ...
  • make sure there is no ambiguity in user inputs
  • make it work for beginning of sub name but also for
    • ending sub name:
      • nideovim and nideovim2 can be targeted by nm and n2 respectively
    • split names by separator such as - or _
      • nideovim-test and nideovim-prod can be targeted by nt and np respectively
      • and with nd for nideovim-prod
      • and with nideovim-t and nideovim-p respectively