Mahalo Thomas et al.
Worked like a charm:
Notes for other newbs like myself.
You will want to set "console.enabled: false" in your kibana.yml to force the recompile on restart (toggle back to true after or you will be waiting a long time during each restart)... and in my case, I installed as root, so "programatically created and updated" code by user "kibana" on compile did not have access to overwrite files in kibana/optimize/bundles/ . Change permissions or delete as needed to allow dynamic regeneration on the first compile after installation.