feat: clean directories before initial builds

[jacob-ebey]

Closes: #

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[kentcdodds]

Could we put this in buildEverything in compiler.ts? That way it can be in one place and it'll get cleared between builds in watch mode as well.

[jacob-ebey]

Could we put this in buildEverything in compiler.ts? That way it can be in one place and it'll get cleared between builds in watch mode as well.

buildEverything is actually called for re-builds as well in dev mode. We cleared out inbetween builds in the past and it caused some issues with missing assets, etc. I'd rather keep it explicit in the CLI commands layer, not compiler layer.

[kentcdodds]

Sounds fine to me 👍 Thanks for explaining that to me.

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[nicksrandall]

@kentcdodds @jacob-ebey this breaks most of the "stacks" as the "server.js" file is deleted before the server can start. IMHO, I think this change needs to be reverted until we figure out how to handle these cases. This change has broken my app in other ways was well but I might be specific to just me.

For example, I use this sugggestion to add font files to my _assets folder and now they are being cleared as well before they can be used. #1153 (comment)

[kentcdodds]

Thanks @nicksrandall.

Let's get this reverted.