Absolutely. But don't overestimate it either! Most serious bugs compile perfectly well -- and so you're trading quick detection of simple errors for more difficulty dealing with the hard stuff.
The nice thing is, that brunch automatically generates proper sourcemaps, so you can debug your application pretty well. Soooo, you have the little stuff catched instantly and are able to debug higher-abstraction code (!) without much hassle. Of course, this just works in my specific case that simple... :)
Absolutely. But don't overestimate it either! Most serious bugs compile perfectly well -- and so you're trading quick detection of simple errors for more difficulty dealing with the hard stuff.