Thw humungous auto-geberated boilerplates are rude goldberg machines. But you don't need those at all. A simple webpack config (including setting up babel, typescript, etc) is less than 100 lines (not nothing, but comparable to build scripts in other langauges).
It's worth noting that there is some inherent complexity in the web platform due to the fact that you are generally targetting multiple platforms. Server side code has it easy here (and indeed Node.js generally needs little in the way of build process)
Regarding error with native NPM dependencies (usually when switching node versionw, or switching between macOS node and linux node in docker): this can almost always be solved witha simple `npm rebuild` once when you change node version.
It's worth noting that there is some inherent complexity in the web platform due to the fact that you are generally targetting multiple platforms. Server side code has it easy here (and indeed Node.js generally needs little in the way of build process)
Regarding error with native NPM dependencies (usually when switching node versionw, or switching between macOS node and linux node in docker): this can almost always be solved witha simple `npm rebuild` once when you change node version.