This is exactly how we do it with our very own rudimentary internal library and scripts. Barely enough and even though I worry at times it will break unexpectedly but so far we are surprised by how stable everything has been.

Although I really wish there was a first party solution or a well established library for this but I suspect that while it is easy to build only enough to support specific usecases but building a generic enough solution for everyone would be quite an undertaking.