[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #43055: Reorganize Core JS / introduce build step

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#43055: Reorganize Core JS / introduce build step
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 Reporter:  omarreiss         |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  5.0
Component:  Build/Test Tools  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal            |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  dev-feedback      |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by TJNowell):

 > This is particular important, as grunt watch has awful performance in
 any environment that uses a VM and shared folders.

 Not if you run it on the host machine. Part of the opposition of VVV to
 auto running `grunt watch` is that not every user is interested in
 developing core, yet an instance is installed out of the box. Running
 grunt watch in the provisioner would add overhead to every VVV users
 installs unless they disabled the core dev sites and imo that's an
 unreasonable ask.

 > Automated development environment setup scripts. The Gutenberg setup
 script walks the user through setting up their development environment. It
 would obviously need to be written to work on Windows, too, before it was
 a valid option for Core.

 I began work on a VVV tool to do this automatically once
 Vagrant/VirtualBox were installed:

 https://github.com/tomjn/vvv-cd-installer

 the goal being that you could copy it off a USB drive and run it, and it
 would step through every stage of setting up an environment:
 https://github.com/tomjn/vvv-cd-installer

 But I see no reason the docker call in the GB script couldn't be a `git
 clone ... cd vvv.. vagrant up --provision`

 As an aside, if we're moving more to webpack, should we not make use of
 npm scripts so that we maintain the same commands regardless of the tools
 behind the scenes? `npm run watch` `npm run build` etc

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/43055#comment:56>
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