I also agree with just about everything here, and thanks for the tip on es6-promise. I'll have to check it out. I actually have this entire stack running witho

I also agree with just about everything here, and thanks for the tip on es6-promise. I'll have to check it out. I actually have this entire stack running without observables currently, and my goal is to build a variety of applications using it to really sort out the best techniques with it, and then open source it as a platform. As for #7. I use webpack and love it. It does work wonderfully server side as well, you just have a build step with webpack that strips out anything you don't want for the server, and then have your server run that built file. Not perfect, but works well. It also avoids any need for gulp.