While prototyping the javascript / typescript integration we discovered, that the existing build tooling can do sufficient task scheduling (e.g. it can invoke a code generator for protocol buffers after installing them). What we discovered is that a) the installation of Buffrs and b) the invocation of protoc is pretty cumbersome and repetitive.

A potential solution could be, to package buffrs and distribute it as npm package (making the installation happen in the background) and provide node scripts for installation and code generation.