I really like some aspects of CommonJS/OCaml -- while digesting the whole thing, I've put together an `opam-boot` tool that does the standalone bootstrap so that you can build OCaml/OPAM applications without either OCaml or OPAM installed.

https://github.com/avsm/opam-boot (still unannounced and being debugging, but essentially working)

I'm liking the Merlin integration in CommonJS as well -- perhaps specialising it for js_of_ocaml applications would be one way to deploy it.