I feel like Bazel and Cmake have solved this sufficiently well. I regularly compile larger projects from scratch and usually the process is to call vcvars (I'm on Windows) and then Bazel and then an hour later I have a folder full of cached lib and dll files so that linking my actual executable only takes a second.

I would be so incredibly grateful to have something comparable in JavaScript that quickly checks static typing for my entire project. But the closest I have found is Rust/Elm, so not using JavaScript anymore.