[zamber]

Yes, but... chances are your backend dev will have a system-provided or just plain outdated Node version so they'll get a cryptic exception and will have to reach for assistance.

Ideally you would have a pipeline building the project on each branch commit so that the backend dev can push, wait 5 min, fetch the artifacts for that branch and run it locally to test it. Or even better - if there's a pipeline chances are there's a Dockerfile doing the build but it will not support live-reload.

Either ways it gets complex as soon as you have to get out of your comfort zone. Especially if the docs are outdated/verbose/non-existent.