> ... but what about backend networking stuff or even for macro like environments like scss ... For generated CSS I had Emacs configured to generate the CSS on

> ... but what about backend networking stuff or even for macro like environments like scss ... For generated CSS I had Emacs configured to generate the CSS on change and automatically update the "cache buster" token (just to be safe). Clojure(Script) with figwheel takes care of updating the webapp (in dev) on every change in the CSS dir. Really no issue there: everything is instant.