grunt

I've used both Makefiles and Grunt for projects and I much prefer Grunt: * I find the js syntax of gruntfiles much cleaner and harmonious with the js code I'm writing for my projects * From what I've seen, Makefiles are meant to create output files - seems like Grunt can be set up more easily for things meant for display (linting, etc) * Better ecosystem with grunt plugins: https://github.com/cowboy/grunt/blob/master/docs/plugins.md

Haven't used it myself, but it is suppsoed to work, there are a number of Windows specific things on the FAQ - https://github.com/cowboy/grunt/blob/master/docs/faq.md

Looks a lot like a customized version of grunt.js -- backbone-boilerplate is another example of a suite of tools built on grunt. https://github.com/cowboy/grunt https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate

I'd use something like Grunt (https://github.com/cowboy/grunt) as a way to minify & concatenate your files for deployment. That way, you can work with a file formatted to your liking, but when deployed, it will be optimized.