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+.DEFAULT_GOAL := help
+.PHONY: docs
+SRC_DIRS = ./tutorecommerce
+BLACK_OPTS = --exclude templates ${SRC_DIRS}
+
+# Warning: These checks are not necessarily run on every PR.
+test: test-lint test-types test-format  # Run some static checks.
+
+test-format: ## Run code formatting tests
+	black --check --diff $(BLACK_OPTS)
+
+test-lint: ## Run code linting tests
+	pylint --errors-only --enable=unused-import,unused-argument --ignore=templates --ignore=docs/_ext ${SRC_DIRS}
+
+test-types: ## Run type checks.
+	mypy --exclude=templates --ignore-missing-imports --implicit-reexport --strict ${SRC_DIRS}
+
+format: ## Format code automatically
+	black $(BLACK_OPTS)
+
+isort: ##  Sort imports. This target is not mandatory because the output may be incompatible with black formatting. Provided for convenience purposes.
+	isort --skip=templates ${SRC_DIRS}
+
+changelog-entry: ## Create a new changelog entry.
+	scriv create
+
+changelog: ## Collect changelog entries in the CHANGELOG.md file.
+	scriv collect
+
+ESCAPE = 
+help: ## Print this help
+	@grep -E '^([a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*|######* .+)$$' Makefile \
+		| sed 's/######* \(.*\)/@               $(ESCAPE)[1;31m\1$(ESCAPE)[0m/g' | tr '@' '\n' \
+		| awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[33m%-30s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'