feat: replace make and shell scripts with a node.js CLI

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The world's top programming language is JavaScript. Many developers struggle to understand GNU make makefile and shell scripts, especially for cross-platform development. The requirements may feel "foreign" to Windows developers.

Describe the solution you'd like

Replace make with a custom CLI and re-write shell scripts as part of the CLI.

The CLI could support plug-ins that are extended for:

• Different host run-times (e.g. docker, docker-compose, podman, etc.)
• Different languages, language run-times, and frameworks (e.g. node start, ./gradlew bootRun, dotnet run, etc.)
• Different cloud tools (e.g. aws, eb, az, gcloud, heroku, etc.)

Potential examples:

• make start becomes our start or our start --tool=podman
• A cloud deploy (e.g. ./install.sh) becomes our install --cloud=aws

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Scripting in any language. However, any language will likely require a runtime installation. JavaScript is the most ubiquitous language, so...
• Some languages could compile multiple native binaries without a runtime requirement and GitHub Actions would support generating the platform-specific binaries for popular OS platforms. But, that increases complexity for the project to manage.