For me, I type stuff into make.ts and then run ./make.ts in my terminal (Ok, I need one Up Enter for that). I use make.ts , and so there’s a make.ts in the root of most projects I work on. Correspondingly, I have make.ts line in project’s .git/info/exclude — the .gitignore file which is not shared. At one point, I had a VS Code task to run make.ts , though I now use terminal editor. Start the script with hash bang, #!/usr/bin/env -S deno run --allow-all in my case, and chmod a+x make.ts the file, to make it easy to run.