Use [esbuild](https://esbuild.github.io/) instead of Webpack for builds of `client/web`, for faster builds (dev and prod) and greater dev-prod parity. This PR completely removes all use of Webpack in this repository.
`client/web` is the last build target that still uses Webpack; all others have been recently migrated to esbuild. Most devs here have been using esbuild for local dev of `client/web` for the last 6-12 months anyway. The change here is that now our production builds will be built by esbuild.
All sg commands, integration/e2e tests, etc., continue to work as-is. The bundlesize report will take a while to stabilize because the new build products use different filenames.
## Benchmarks
Running `pnpm run generate && time pnpm -C client/web run task:gulp webBuild` and taking the `time` output from the last command:
- Webpack: 62.5s
- esbuild: 6.7s
Note: This understates esbuild's victory for 2 reasons: (1) because esbuild is building both the main and embed entrypoints, whereas Webpack only builds the main entrypoint in this benchmark) and (2) because a lot of it is in the fixed startup time of `gulp`; esbuild incremental rebuilds during local dev only take ~1s.
## Notes
We no longer use Babel to produce web builds (we use esbuild), so we don't need any Babel plugins that optimize the output or improve browser compatibility. Right now, Babel is only used by Jest (for tests) and by Bazel as an intermediate step.
Bazel's rules_js rely on the pnpm package manager. To simplify the integration, we're migrating to pnpm from our current package manager — yarn. Another reason to migrate is that pnpm is cool and fast. 😉
This is a replacement which is using the same Dockerfile godockerize
generates, as well as the same build commands. It isn't that nice, but is a
good starting point for improving the Dockerfile.
