WIP - dependency experiments

[gagik]

This introduces a stricter knip dependency check and does some refactoring to make it possible to run workspace-specific installations for our tests in evergreen.

WIP - seeing how well this works...

[addaleax]

Is this just removing all exports that aren't used elsewhere?

I think this is fine but I think this here would be a good example of a case where this type should be exported since it's definitely part of the module's API

[gagik]

yeah, with the right configuration it can be smarter and figure out that this is meant to be a production exported file. that said I can disable it at this stage

[addaleax]

^ Are we sure about this? We should probably be expanding this file into a proper package.json instead of deleting it

[gagik]

yeah you predicted my eventual realization 😄

[addaleax]

btw, we should probably remove all or most packages here over time, this is a great step in that direction

[addaleax]

to make it possible to run workspace-specific installations for our tests in evergreen.

Is that the primary goal here by itself? This sounds like an X-Y thing, like, what is the ultimate problem we're trying to solve?

[gagik]

Is that the primary goal here by itself? This sounds like an X-Y thing, like, what is the ultimate problem we're trying to solve?

I'm going to split this up into multiple PRs once I reach a working point but there's a few things:

1. turn testing hooks into a testing package
2. fix deduped packages
3. add knip + use better dependency management as result of this
4. apply knip-suggested export changes (which we can ignore)
5. workspace-specific install before tests for quicker installs per test