diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..622bd4d698
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+dev.ts
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/dev.ts b/dev.ts
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..427dc6bda6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+':' //; exec node --disable-warning=ExperimentalWarning --experimental-strip-types "$0" "$@"
+':' /*
+@echo off
+node "%~dpnx0" %*
+exit /b %errorlevel%
+*/
+
+import { execSync, type ExecSyncOptions, spawn } from 'node:child_process';
+import { Dir, Dirent, existsSync, mkdirSync, opendirSync, readFileSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { platform } from 'node:os';
+import { join, resolve } from 'node:path';
+import { parseArgs } from 'node:util';
+
+// Utilities
+const tryRun = <T>(fn: () => T, onSuccess?: (result: T) => void, onError?: (e: unknown) => void, onFinally?: (result: T | undefined) => void): T | void => {
+  let result: T | undefined= undefined;
+  try { 
+    result = fn();
+    onSuccess?.(result);
+    return result;
+  } catch (e: unknown) { 
+    onError?.(e); 
+  } finally {
+    onFinally?.(result);
+  }
+};
+
+
+const FALSE = () => false;
+const exit0 = () => process.exit(0);
+const exit1 = () => process.exit(1);
+const log = (msg: string) => { console.log(msg); return msg; };
+const err = (msg: string, e?: unknown) => { console.log(msg, e); return undefined; };
+const errExit = (msg: string, e?: unknown) => ()=>{ console.log(msg, e); exit1(); };
+
+
+const exec = (cmd: string, opts: ExecSyncOptions = { stdio: 'inherit' }) => execSync(cmd, opts);
+
+const isWSL = () => platform() === 'linux' && 
+  tryRun(() => readFileSync('/proc/version', 'utf-8').toLowerCase().includes('microsoft'), undefined, FALSE);
+
+const isWindows = () => platform() === 'win32';
+const supportsChown = () => !isWindows() || isWSL();
+
+const onExit = (handler: () => void) => {
+  ['SIGINT', 'SIGTERM'].forEach(sig => process.on(sig, () => { handler(); exit0(); }));
+  if (isWindows()) process.on('SIGBREAK', () => { handler(); exit0(); });
+};
+
+// Directory operations
+const mkdirs = (dirs: string[]) => dirs.forEach(dir => 
+  tryRun(
+    () => mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true }), 
+    () => log(`Created directory: ${dir}`),
+    e => err(`Error creating directory ${dir}:`, e)
+  ));
+
+const chown = (dirs: string[], uid: string, gid: string) => {
+  if (!supportsChown()) {
+    log('Skipping ownership changes on Windows (not supported outside WSL)');
+    return;
+  }
+  for (const dir of dirs) {
+    tryRun(
+      () => exec(`chown -R ${uid}:${gid} "${dir}"`), 
+      undefined,
+      errExit(`Permission denied when changing owner of volumes. Try running 'sudo ./dev.ts prepare-volumes' first.`)
+    );
+  }
+};
+
+const findAndRemove = (path: string, target: string) => {
+  if (!existsSync(path)) return;
+  
+  const removeLoop = (dir: Dir) => {
+    let dirent: Dirent | null;
+    while ((dirent = dir.readSync()) !== null) {
+      if (!dirent.isDirectory()) continue;
+      
+      const itemPath = join(path, dirent.name);
+      if (dirent.name === target) {
+        log(`  Removing: ${itemPath}`);
+        rmSync(itemPath, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      } else {
+        findAndRemove(itemPath, target);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  tryRun(() => opendirSync(path), removeLoop, errExit( `Error opening directory ${path}`), (dir) => dir?.closeSync());
+};
+
+// Docker DSL
+const docker = {
+  compose: (file: string) => ({
+    up: (opts?: string[]) => spawn('docker', ['compose', '-f', file, 'up', ...(opts || [])], {
+      stdio: 'inherit',
+      env: { ...process.env, COMPOSE_BAKE: 'true' },
+      shell: true
+    }),
+    down: () => tryRun(() => exec(`docker compose -f ${file} down --remove-orphans`))
+  }),
+  
+  isAvailable: () => !!tryRun(() => exec('docker --version', { stdio: 'ignore' }), undefined, FALSE)
+};
+
+// Environment configuration
+const envConfig = {
+  volumeDirs: [
+    './.pnpm-store', './web/.svelte-kit', './web/node_modules', './web/coverage',
+    './e2e/node_modules', './docs/node_modules', './server/node_modules',
+    './open-api/typescript-sdk/node_modules', './.github/node_modules',
+    './node_modules', './cli/node_modules'
+  ],
+  
+  cleanDirs: ['node_modules', 'dist', 'build', '.svelte-kit', 'coverage', '.pnpm-store'],
+  
+  composeFiles: {
+    dev: './docker/docker-compose.dev.yml',
+    e2e: './e2e/docker-compose.yml',
+    prod: './docker/docker-compose.prod.yml'
+  },
+  
+  getEnv: () => ({
+    uid: process.env.UID || '1000',
+    gid: process.env.GID || '1000'
+  })
+};
+
+// Commands
+const commands = {
+  'prepare-volumes': () => {
+    log('Preparing volumes...');
+    const { uid, gid } = envConfig.getEnv();
+    
+    mkdirs(envConfig.volumeDirs);
+    chown(envConfig.volumeDirs, uid, gid);
+    
+    // Handle UPLOAD_LOCATION
+    const uploadLocation = tryRun(() => {
+      const content = readFileSync('./docker/.env', 'utf-8');
+      const match = content.match(/^UPLOAD_LOCATION=(.+)$/m);
+      return match?.[1]?.trim();
+    });
+    
+    if (uploadLocation) {
+      const targetPath = resolve('docker', uploadLocation);
+      mkdirs([targetPath]);
+      
+      if (supportsChown()) {
+        tryRun(
+          () => {
+            // First chown the uploadLocation directory itself
+            exec(`chown ${uid}:${gid} "${targetPath}"`);
+            // Then chown all contents except postgres folder (using -prune to skip it entirely)
+            exec(`find "${targetPath}" -mindepth 1 -name postgres -prune -o -exec chown ${uid}:${gid} {} +`);
+          },
+          undefined,
+          errExit(`Permission denied when changing owner of volumes. Try running 'sudo ./dev.ts prepare-volumes' first.`)
+        );
+      } else {
+        log('Skipping ownership changes on Windows (not supported outside WSL)');
+      }
+    }
+    
+    log('Volume preparation completed.');
+  },
+  
+  clean: () => {
+    log('Starting clean process...');
+    
+    envConfig.cleanDirs.forEach(dir => {
+      log(`Removing ${dir} directories...`);
+      findAndRemove('.', dir);
+    });
+    
+    docker.isAvailable() && 
+      log('Stopping and removing Docker containers...') && 
+      docker.compose(envConfig.composeFiles.dev).down();
+    
+    log('Clean process completed.');
+  },
+  
+  down: (opts: { e2e?: boolean; prod?: boolean }) => {
+    const type = opts.prod ? 'prod' : opts.e2e ? 'e2e' : 'dev';
+    const file = envConfig.composeFiles[type];
+    
+    log(`\nStopping ${type} environment...`);
+    docker.compose(file).down();
+  },
+  
+  up: (opts: { e2e?: boolean; prod?: boolean }) => {
+    commands['prepare-volumes']();
+    
+    const type = opts.prod ? 'prod' : opts.e2e ? 'e2e' : 'dev';
+    const file = envConfig.composeFiles[type];
+    const args = opts.prod ? ['--build', '-V', '--remove-orphans'] : ['--remove-orphans'];
+    
+    onExit(() => commands.down(opts));
+    
+    log(`Starting ${type} environment...`);
+    
+    const proc = docker.compose(file).up(args);
+    proc.on('error',errExit('Failed to start docker compose:' ));
+    proc.on('exit', (code: number) => { commands.down(opts); code ? exit1() : exit0(); });
+  }
+};
+
+// Main
+const { positionals, values } = parseArgs({
+  args: process.argv.slice(2),
+  allowPositionals: true,
+  options: {
+    e2e: { type: 'boolean', default: false },
+    prod: { type: 'boolean', default: false }
+  }
+});
+
+const command = positionals[0];
+const handler = commands[command as keyof typeof commands];
+
+if (!handler) {
+  log('Usage: ./dev.ts [clean|prepare-volumes|up [--e2e] [--prod]|down [--e2e] [--prod]]');
+  exit1();
+}
+
+handler(values);
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml b/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml
index 372352d12a..ff6e7fe11f 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.dev.yml
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ services:
     container_name: immich_server
     command: ['immich-dev']
     image: immich-server-dev:latest
+    pull_policy: never
     # extends:
     #   file: hwaccel.transcoding.yml
     #   service: cpu # set to one of [nvenc, quicksync, rkmpp, vaapi, vaapi-wsl] for accelerated transcoding
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ services:
   immich-web:
     container_name: immich_web
     image: immich-web-dev:latest
+    pull_policy: never
     # Needed for rootless docker setup, see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/45919
     # user: 0:0
     user: '${UID:-1000}:${GID:-1000}'
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ services:
   immich-machine-learning:
     container_name: immich_machine_learning
     image: immich-machine-learning-dev:latest
+    pull_policy: never
     # extends:
     #   file: hwaccel.ml.yml
     #   service: cpu # set to one of [armnn, cuda, rocm, openvino, openvino-wsl, rknn] for accelerated inference
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a718d7ccd0..e83b641736 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -6,5 +6,12 @@
   "packageManager": "pnpm@10.14.0+sha512.ad27a79641b49c3e481a16a805baa71817a04bbe06a38d17e60e2eaee83f6a146c6a688125f5792e48dd5ba30e7da52a5cda4c3992b9ccf333f9ce223af84748",
   "engines": {
     "pnpm": ">=10.0.0"
+  },
+  "type": "module",
+  "scripts": {
+    "dev": "node --experimental-strip-types dev.ts"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/node": "22.18.0"
   }
 }
diff --git a/pnpm-lock.yaml b/pnpm-lock.yaml
index fa24e5b31f..99c4d168c8 100644
--- a/pnpm-lock.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-lock.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ pnpmfileChecksum: sha256-AG/qwrPNpmy9q60PZwCpecoYVptglTHgH+N6RKQHOM0=
 
 importers:
 
-  .: {}
+  .:
+    devDependencies:
+      '@types/node':
+        specifier: 22.18.0
+        version: 22.18.0
 
   .github:
     devDependencies:
@@ -4658,6 +4662,9 @@ packages:
   '@types/node@22.17.2':
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-gL6z5N9Jm9mhY+U2KXZpteb+09zyffliRkZyZOHODGATyC5B1Jt/7TzuuiLkFsSUMLbS1OLmlj/E+/3KF4Q/4w==}
 
+  '@types/node@22.18.0':
+    resolution: {integrity: sha512-m5ObIqwsUp6BZzyiy4RdZpzWGub9bqLJMvZDD0QMXhxjqMHMENlj+SqF5QxoUwaQNFe+8kz8XM8ZQhqkQPTgMQ==}
+
   '@types/node@24.3.0':
     resolution: {integrity: sha512-aPTXCrfwnDLj4VvXrm+UUCQjNEvJgNA8s5F1cvwQU+3KNltTOkBm1j30uNLyqqPNe7gE3KFzImYoZEfLhp4Yow==}
 
@@ -14530,7 +14537,7 @@ snapshots:
       '@jest/schemas': 29.6.3
       '@types/istanbul-lib-coverage': 2.0.6
       '@types/istanbul-reports': 3.0.4
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       '@types/yargs': 17.0.33
       chalk: 4.1.2
 
@@ -16349,7 +16356,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/accepts@1.3.7':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/archiver@6.0.3':
     dependencies:
@@ -16363,22 +16370,22 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/bcrypt@6.0.0':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/body-parser@1.19.6':
     dependencies:
       '@types/connect': 3.4.38
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/bonjour@3.5.13':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/braces@3.0.5': {}
 
   '@types/bunyan@1.8.11':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/byte-size@8.1.2': {}
 
@@ -16397,21 +16404,21 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/cli-progress@3.11.6':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/compression@1.8.1':
     dependencies:
       '@types/express': 5.0.3
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/connect-history-api-fallback@1.5.4':
     dependencies:
       '@types/express-serve-static-core': 5.0.6
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/connect@3.4.38':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/content-disposition@0.5.9': {}
 
@@ -16428,11 +16435,11 @@ snapshots:
       '@types/connect': 3.4.38
       '@types/express': 5.0.3
       '@types/keygrip': 1.0.6
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/cors@2.8.19':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/debug@4.1.12':
     dependencies:
@@ -16442,13 +16449,13 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/docker-modem@3.0.6':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       '@types/ssh2': 1.15.5
 
   '@types/dockerode@3.3.42':
     dependencies:
       '@types/docker-modem': 3.0.6
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       '@types/ssh2': 1.15.5
 
   '@types/dom-to-image@2.6.7': {}
@@ -16471,14 +16478,14 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/express-serve-static-core@4.19.6':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       '@types/qs': 6.14.0
       '@types/range-parser': 1.2.7
       '@types/send': 0.17.5
 
   '@types/express-serve-static-core@5.0.6':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       '@types/qs': 6.14.0
       '@types/range-parser': 1.2.7
       '@types/send': 0.17.5
@@ -16504,7 +16511,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/fluent-ffmpeg@2.1.27':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/geojson-vt@3.2.5':
     dependencies:
@@ -16541,7 +16548,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/http-proxy@1.17.16':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/inquirer@8.2.11':
     dependencies:
@@ -16579,7 +16586,7 @@ snapshots:
       '@types/http-errors': 2.0.5
       '@types/keygrip': 1.0.6
       '@types/koa-compose': 3.2.8
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/leaflet@1.9.19':
     dependencies:
@@ -16605,7 +16612,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/memcached@2.2.10':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/methods@1.1.4': {}
 
@@ -16617,7 +16624,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/mock-fs@4.13.4':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/ms@2.1.0': {}
 
@@ -16627,16 +16634,16 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/mysql@2.15.27':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/node-fetch@2.6.12':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       form-data: 4.0.3
 
   '@types/node-forge@1.3.11':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/node@17.0.45': {}
 
@@ -16656,6 +16663,10 @@ snapshots:
     dependencies:
       undici-types: 6.21.0
 
+  '@types/node@22.18.0':
+    dependencies:
+      undici-types: 6.21.0
+
   '@types/node@24.3.0':
     dependencies:
       undici-types: 7.10.0
@@ -16663,17 +16674,17 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/nodemailer@6.4.17':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/oidc-provider@9.1.2':
     dependencies:
       '@types/keygrip': 1.0.6
       '@types/koa': 3.0.0
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/oracledb@6.5.2':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/parse5@5.0.3': {}
 
@@ -16683,13 +16694,13 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/pg@8.15.4':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       pg-protocol: 1.10.3
       pg-types: 2.2.0
 
   '@types/pg@8.15.5':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       pg-protocol: 1.10.3
       pg-types: 2.2.0
 
@@ -16697,13 +16708,13 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/pngjs@6.0.5':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/prismjs@1.26.5': {}
 
   '@types/qrcode@1.5.5':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/qs@6.14.0': {}
 
@@ -16743,7 +16754,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/readdir-glob@1.1.5':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/retry@0.12.0': {}
 
@@ -16753,14 +16764,14 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/sax@1.2.7':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/semver@7.7.0': {}
 
   '@types/send@0.17.5':
     dependencies:
       '@types/mime': 1.3.5
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/serve-index@1.9.4':
     dependencies:
@@ -16769,20 +16780,20 @@ snapshots:
   '@types/serve-static@1.15.8':
     dependencies:
       '@types/http-errors': 2.0.5
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       '@types/send': 0.17.5
 
   '@types/sockjs@0.3.36':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/ssh2-streams@0.1.12':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/ssh2@0.5.52':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       '@types/ssh2-streams': 0.1.12
 
   '@types/ssh2@1.15.5':
@@ -16793,7 +16804,7 @@ snapshots:
     dependencies:
       '@types/cookiejar': 2.1.5
       '@types/methods': 1.1.4
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       form-data: 4.0.3
 
   '@types/supercluster@7.1.3':
@@ -16807,11 +16818,11 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/tedious@4.0.14':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/through@0.0.33':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/ua-parser-js@0.7.39': {}
 
@@ -16825,7 +16836,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   '@types/ws@8.18.1':
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
 
   '@types/yargs-parser@21.0.3': {}
 
@@ -18915,7 +18926,7 @@ snapshots:
   engine.io@6.6.4:
     dependencies:
       '@types/cors': 2.8.19
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       accepts: 1.3.8
       base64id: 2.0.0
       cookie: 0.7.2
@@ -19339,7 +19350,7 @@ snapshots:
 
   eval@0.1.8:
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       require-like: 0.1.2
 
   event-emitter@0.3.5:
@@ -20591,7 +20602,7 @@ snapshots:
   jest-util@29.7.0:
     dependencies:
       '@jest/types': 29.6.3
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       chalk: 4.1.2
       ci-info: 3.9.0
       graceful-fs: 4.2.11
@@ -20599,13 +20610,13 @@ snapshots:
 
   jest-worker@27.5.1:
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       merge-stream: 2.0.0
       supports-color: 8.1.1
 
   jest-worker@29.7.0:
     dependencies:
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       jest-util: 29.7.0
       merge-stream: 2.0.0
       supports-color: 8.1.1
@@ -23098,7 +23109,7 @@ snapshots:
       '@protobufjs/path': 1.1.2
       '@protobufjs/pool': 1.1.0
       '@protobufjs/utf8': 1.1.0
-      '@types/node': 22.17.2
+      '@types/node': 22.18.0
       long: 5.3.2
 
   protocol-buffers-schema@3.6.0: {}