How to have the computer do more of the work and me less when developing Javascript

How to have the computer do more of the work and me less when developing
Javascript

When using Javascript, how can one develop and test speedly yet accurately
(and focus on the algorithms rather than the mechanics)? Are there helpful
tools that can be used in a batch or command line mode (i.e. outside of an
IDE)?
I find when developing in Javascript I spend a tremendous amount of time
locating the sorts of problems caused by careless typing or brain farts:
misspelled variable names, misspelled property names, missing functions,
wrong number of arguments to a function, and so forth.
A tool needs to understand the "semantics" of the language to find errors
like this (what's a variable name, what's a function name, and so forth).
In my experience, tools like JSLint/JSHint that look only at the "syntax"
aren't very helpful. They emit a huge flood of stylistic warnings that are
largely irrelevant, yet still don't identify the errors that really
matter.
Without a "coverage" tool and many weeks of testing, errors in the
uncommon paths often sneak through. It's not unusual to have a corpus of
Javascript in production for months, and only then find some obscure crash
error.
In Perl I can just "use strict" and my program won't even run until I fix
these, and Perl's "warnings" quickly identifies most of the rest. How can
Javascript development do something similar?