diff --git a/terminal/src/Main.hs b/terminal/src/Main.hs
index 1c88e1b65..eadc54264 100644
--- a/terminal/src/Main.hs
+++ b/terminal/src/Main.hs
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ make =
         flags Make.Flags
           |-- onOff "debug" "Turn on the time-travelling debugger. It allows you to rewind and replay events. The events can be imported/exported into a file, which makes for very precise bug reports!"
           |-- onOff "optimize" "Turn on optimizations to make code smaller and faster. For example, the compiler renames record fields to be as short as possible and unboxes values to reduce allocation."
-          |-- flag "output" Make.output "Specify the name of the resulting JS file. For example --output=assets/gren.js to generate the JS at assets/gren.js or --output=/dev/null to generate no output at all!"
+          |-- flag "output" Make.output "Specify the name of the resulting JS file. For example --output=assets/gren.js to generate the JS at assets/gren.js. You can also use --output=/dev/stdout to output the JS to the terminal, or --output=/dev/null to generate no output at all!"
           |-- flag "report" Make.reportType "You can say --report=json to get error messages as JSON. This is only really useful if you are an editor plugin. Humans should avoid it!"
           |-- flag "docs" Make.docsFile "Generate a JSON file of documentation for a package. Eventually it will be possible to preview docs with `reactor` because it is quite hard to deal with these JSON files directly."
    in Terminal.Command "make" Uncommon details example (zeroOrMore grenFile) makeFlags Make.run
diff --git a/terminal/src/Make.hs b/terminal/src/Make.hs
index ab20fd00c..64d897cfd 100644
--- a/terminal/src/Make.hs
+++ b/terminal/src/Make.hs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import qualified Reporting.Exit as Exit
 import qualified Reporting.Task as Task
 import qualified System.Directory as Dir
 import qualified System.FilePath as FP
+import qualified System.IO as IO
 import Terminal (Parser (..))
 
 -- FLAGS
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ data Output
   = JS FilePath
   | Html FilePath
   | DevNull
+  | DevStdOut
 
 data ReportType
   = Json
@@ -91,6 +93,14 @@ runHelp root paths style (Flags debug optimize maybeOutput _ maybeDocs) =
                         do
                           builder <- toBuilder root details desiredMode artifacts
                           generate style "gren.js" builder (NE.List name names)
+                  Just DevStdOut ->
+                    case getMains artifacts of
+                      [] ->
+                        return ()
+                      _ ->
+                        do
+                          builder <- toBuilder root details desiredMode artifacts
+                          Task.io $ B.hPutBuilder IO.stdout builder
                   Just DevNull ->
                     return ()
                   Just (JS target) ->
@@ -239,11 +249,12 @@ output =
       _plural = "output files",
       _parser = parseOutput,
       _suggest = \_ -> return [],
-      _examples = \_ -> return ["gren.js", "index.html", "/dev/null"]
+      _examples = \_ -> return ["gren.js", "index.html", "/dev/null", "/dev/stdout"]
     }
 
 parseOutput :: String -> Maybe Output
 parseOutput name
+  | name == "/dev/stdout" = Just DevStdOut
   | isDevNull name = Just DevNull
   | hasExt ".html" name = Just (Html name)
   | hasExt ".js" name = Just (JS name)