Say you want to use shader-reload on your current budo/ThreeJS application, but you don't want to use the glsl-server since you have some specific transforms or options you need.
You can write a new dev.js script (see below) and include any additional transforms you may want (babel, brfs, etc).
Now you can replace the budo command with node dev.js, and pass all other flags as usual.
Note: The utility handles live reloading for you (JS, HTML, CSS, GLSL), so you don't need to pass the --live or -l flags.