This is useful, but I am not sure at scale (i.e. a constellation of micro-services working together) I would want some of this functionality abstracted behind a library. I prefer gulp and wrote a couple articles talking through a simple process for local development, testing, and deployment if anyone finds it useful:

* https://medium.com/@AdamRNeary/developing-and-testing-amazon... * https://medium.com/@AdamRNeary/a-gulp-workflow-for-amazon-la...