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#1

Two questions:

  1. Is there a recommended front-end development tool for use with DHX?
  2. Is deployment simply copying files to my web server?
#2
  1. Is there a recommended front-end development tool for use with DHX?

Nope, any modern javascript tools will work fine

  1. Is deployment simply copying files to my web server?

Yep