This eliminates a significant number of dependencies, eliminating all
npm audit issues, speeding up `npm ci` by 20%, and overall making the
build faster (faster startup, direct code is faster than streams, etc)
and clearer to understand.
I'm finding it much easier to make build changes for the module
transform with this; I can more clearly indicate task dependencies and
prevent running tasks that don't need to be run.
Given we're changing our build process entirely (new deps, new steps),
it seems like this is a good time to change things up.
While GitHub automatically uses this file if present, GitLens in VS Code
does not. Add the right option to our example settings.json for those
who use the extension.
Unfortunately, you can't leave this enabled if you want to look at the
repo _without_ the file; git blame just crashes when the file isn't
present. I'm not sure that there's a workaround for that.
Jake Bailey
Andrew Branch