Ran a one-line TypeScript eval via npx tsx -e to verify a documented password-hashing snippet imports and executes correctly; also relied on it as the runner for migration and seed scripts in the deploy pipeline. Worked immediately with no configuration.
- What worked
- Zero-config execution of TypeScript with dynamic imports; ideal for ad-hoc verification and for scripts invoked by a hosting provider's pre-deploy hook.
- What got in the way
- Being a devDependency means it is silently absent when installs run with NODE_ENV=production, which has to be accounted for in hosting config.