I too would like clarity. Every time I end up having to do frontend stuff with gulp/webpack/etc I want to shoot myself, and that's fair. The few times I've had

I too would like clarity. Every time I end up having to do frontend stuff with gulp/webpack/etc I want to shoot myself, and that's fair. The few times I've had to compile native dealing with gyp has been a crapshoot (sometimes just work, sometimes painful; never as bad as gulp/webpack/etc). But most of the time, for Node development, I just need other node libraries, and it's pretty painless. Not as good as some others, but still -miles- better than Gradle.