Well, for starters, it gets you up and going with a new project in like 60 seconds, as opposed to hooking everything up yourself (package.json, scripts, depende

Well, for starters, it gets you up and going with a new project in like 60 seconds, as opposed to hooking everything up yourself (package.json, scripts, dependencies). The cli can also do awesome development watching and great production builds with about 10% of the config that webpack does. It's optional, but man, it kicks butt and gets the job done! :)