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What about a web server that does the build step automatically, with no configuration required?

Something like webpack-dev-server, but usable both in production and development.

To deploy, drop your typescript/html/css files under /srv/www/ and your web server will take care of everything.

If you already have html/css files, then "dropping them under /src/www" will already just work - that's how servers have worked since time immemorial, no "build step" required.

But compiling isn't what a web server does, and it seems like having the server automatically do what a developer is going to do anyway when they push to production, and likely not very often, isn't a significant gain in efficiency. The point of having a separate build chain for these types is that you're emitting what are meant to be static resources anyway.

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