I'm trying to boil this down to an easily-digestable list of benefits for server-side development, since I'm completely unfamiliar with webpack. So far I have this:

    * Transpiles code that runs in node, not just code that runs in browsers.
    * Hot-reloads modules, so I don't have to restart my server a lot.
    * Does source maps, presumably which are exposed via tools like node-debug.

Anything else?