I appreciate the reply, but unless I&#x27;ve completely missed your point somehow, you didn&#x27;t actually answer my question there. What I&#x27;m looking for is something akin to<p><pre><code>    watchify src&#x2F;index.js -o dist&#x2F;index.js -t ...
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or<p><pre><code>    sass --watch src&#x2F;index.scss:dist&#x2F;index.css
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that handles new or removed files within the source tree gracefully, not just modified files that are already known when you run the command.<p>Whether it&#x27;s monitoring for changes like these examples, or hot reloading and browser sync&#x27;ing, or IDEs that rebuild incrementally in the background so they can give immediate feedback, modern tools that actively monitor for relevant changes and respond to them automatically are noticeably more efficient to work with than traditional tools that run once on demand. Make belongs to a time that has passed, and we could be more productive by retaining the concepts that are as relevant as ever but incorporating them into tools with the more dynamic behaviour that we enjoy in other tools today.