Remove watch scripts from package.json

[wipfli]

In the benchmark migration we came across a bunch of scripts in package.json which are broken or not used anymore. We might want to remove all scripts of the form watch-* and clean up historic CI-related scripts that are now replaced with GitHub Actions like prepublishOnly, print-release-url, and diff-tarball.

[xabbu42]

Does this mean that the watch-* scripts are no longer necessary to automatically trigger rebuilds or that we will no longer have this feature?

[HarelM]

I think that watch-* are just not working properly right now. I think it might be possible to bring them back, but it need some effort.

[wipfli]

The idea is to remove the watch functionality.

[xabbu42]

Just for the record, I think the watch functionality is really useful for developing and it would be quite a loss to have to restart the server or manually build after every change. I assume restarting the server would not be necessary though?

[jaapster]

For development the watch functionality is very useful but at the moment it seems that the 'build' folder is watched, not the 'src' folder which seems strange as I would expect changes to be made to files in 'src'.
Is that on purpose?

[HarelM]

It's useful but broken. Feel free to submit a PR to fix this.

[jazzzz]

I have a branch that fixes the watch scripts, I intend to make a PR but I still need to fix some things, mostly moving back the types directory to the root directory.

[HarelM]

Types directory were removed, weren't they?

[jazzzz]

Types directory were removed, weren't they?

Then it will be easier!

[jazzzz]

I created the PR: #704.

[HarelM]

Fixed by #704

[xabbu42]

Is it possible/easy to also resurrect and fix watch-benchmarks and use the watch scripts in start-bench? This way we would have the full original functionality back.

[HarelM]

@xabbu42 feel free to pursue this :-) Maybe @jazzzz can help out as well.

[jazzzz]

Is it possible/easy to also resurrect and fix watch-benchmarks and use the watch scripts in start-bench? This way we would have the full original functionality back.

I can look into this if you want, unless you already started, in that case, let me know if you need some help.

[xabbu42]

@jazzzz it would be great if you can look into this. I did nothing yet as i don't know the involved tools very well.

[jazzzz]

Is it possible/easy to also resurrect and fix watch-benchmarks and use the watch scripts in start-bench? This way we would have the full original functionality back.

#754

[xabbu42]

Thank you very much!