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Client-side loaders support plugins too. Less, Sass, CoffeeScript, ES6, literally anything you want. I don't know why you would accuse me of not giving Browserify a try (I have several projects that use it, but I guess that's not giving it a try) when you didn't even know that client-side loaders support plugins.

Hell, you could even use a client-side loader exactly as you are doing with Browserify/Webpack. Just set up a watch task that builds unminified and there you go! It's just nice that they aren't dependent on a cli process. But unlike you, I'm not trying to convert anyone here, just pointing out that there are advantages to using client-side loaders. For example, it promotes separation of client-side code from server-side code. Using the same package.json file for both promotes bad practices like developing with the server running and writing code that's not easily testable without the server running.