Consider using Wireit to coordinate npm scripts

[justinfagnani]

Just a suggestion, but looking at the npm scripts and the Node scripts they run, I think Wireit would help a lot in coordinating scripts and caching their results, which should make builds faster and more repeatable for both local development and on CI. I could possibly completely eliminate the need for scripts/build.js

Specifically, Wireit can help:

• Make sure that a top-level build runs all the makeIcons, makeReact, etc scripts
• But allow individual scripts to be run as necessary
• Cache individual script output so that they don't need to run if their inputs didn't change
• Ensure an up-to-date build before tests
• Have core tests only depend on a core build and not need to build artifacts that aren't being tested
• Enable a watch mode for every script

If you decided to go this way, I could help getting things set up.

[claviska]

I'm all for making the build simpler, but I'm always cautious to lean into libraries/apps because it's another layer of abstraction that can make things tricky to maintain later on.

The current build has evolved quite a bit since early on, and even more now with the shift to 11ty. We're leaning on their dev server to handle incremental builds (for speed) and our own BrowserSync implementation to watch for changes. It's a bit of a frankenstein, but it's working reliably now.

I'm not sure we want to invest even more time in underpinnings now that the big changes have shipped, but let's talk about it and consider this (or even just refactoring/simplifying what's already there) for a cooldown task.

[justinfagnani]

I think you could keep a lot of the things that are working for you with eleventy and BrowserSync, while getting the biggest benefit of separating build scripts (components vs themes vs docs, say) and only depending on the build that's needed. This way you'd have a faster build for running tests for example, which wouldn't need to build the docs. Or the site build wouldn't need to recompile the components unless they changed.