A build system is a system involving the processing of different parts of a software system in other to generate a final version of the software that can be used.
Build tools are very similar to factory assemblers that take different finished parts of a car and assemble them to get a fully drivable car.
Build systems are used in software development where several processes need to be completed to get everything working.
This can be converting Typescript [↗] code to Javascript [↗] then removing Javascript code that is never used then compressing everything down to a smaller size then running a prenderer [↗] to extract the final HTML code to be hosted on a static site service like Netlify [↗].
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