My shell scripting skills aren't really that good. I feel that this might be true for most front-end developers. A JS based task runner is nice for me, as a I c

My shell scripting skills aren't really that good. I feel that this might be true for most front-end developers. A JS based task runner is nice for me, as a I can harness the language I use on a daily basis (as well as the community with jobs similar to mine). Maybe if I used more bash than JS I would have a different opinion. Language preferences/fluency aside, I feel that there's much to gain from the JS "hash-based" way of expressing objects which are used as configuration objects (which can be dynamic) in task runners. I'm not aware of an easy alternative to this in shell scripting, but this is probably due to my ignorance on the subject).