refactor: run build on post-install instead of pre-publish #2886
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Fixes #2884.
Switching the bundling to happen on the client-side makes Karma development more flexible. For instance, on projects at work we pull npm packages based on git tags, since we don't have enough to warrant running a private npm registry. If we were to fork Karma, it wouldn't work at all due to the bundling being done on pre-publish.
Additionally, it allows developers to easily pull in pre-release versions of Karma to test locally, since they won't have to manually run the build script when installing the module into a test package.