Exactly. If your project already uses npm and Node, why not just use npm scripts for trivial tasks like this? Adding an extra dependency (Make) to build a project doesn't make sense.

Even if your project needs a more sophisticated build system that requires caching builds and managing conditional dependencies, turborepo and the like offer even better support for javascript codebases out of the box. Turborepo can be a workspace dependency so technically you don't even have to manually and separately install a build system to build your project.