Yes, current build process complication makes me laugh how it's actually making the development harder. With that said I've come to a pretty decent setup that's

Yes, current build process complication makes me laugh how it's actually making the development harder. With that said I've come to a pretty decent setup that's pretty much upload and reload style. - parcel bundler (Real fast, cached compilation is under 1 second) : This bundles all my TypeScript as 1 JS that works in the browser and Stylus into 1 CSS along with dependencies such as jQuery and I no longer have to place script tag for those external dependencies but they're bundled among their dependencies from npm installed copies. - ts-node-dev : Reloads the node server automatically in about a second as I update my server side TypeScript and it doesn't even require compilation process to spit out .js files. - monit : To monitor those 2 processes to make sure they're alive and auto restarted in case the process quits for some reason. The point is, setting them up is very easy. I don't even have a config file for the former 2 and easy readable one for monit. I don't like client side transpilation and bundling as it requires every machine even under different OS to be set up properly exactly the same. Now I no longer do any manual build or wait on each incremental changes but the "good old days" are back with the added benefit of using TypeScript and npm ecosystem in the browser with no effort. I'm impressed.