Notice how in the article nothing is "built", all that happens is an npm install. It sounds like make is used to manage a project and perhaps do things like run

Notice how in the article nothing is "built", all that happens is an npm install. It sounds like make is used to manage a project and perhaps do things like running unit tests, pushing code to stage/qa/prod, fetch data from remote hosts to test locally, running linters and code analysis tools, generating assets, and many more. Is make the right tool for executing such tasks? Well, it's not bad for some I guess, and ok if this one project is all you have.