This rationalizes how arguments are passed to and parsed by the build system. To accomplish this, everything that isn't an environment variable from `.metamaskrc` or our CI environment is now passed as an argument on the command line.
Of such arguments, the `entryTask` is still expected as a positional argument in the first position (i.e. `process.argv[2]`), but everything else must be passed as a named argument. We use `minimist` to parse the arguments, and set defaults to preserve existing behavior.
Arguments are parsed in a new function, `parseArgv`, in `development/build/index.js`. They are assigned to environment variables where convenient, and otherwise returned from `parseArgv` to be passed to other functions invoked in the same file.
This change is motivated by our previous inconsistent handling of arguments to the build system, which will grow increasingly problematic as the build system grows in complexity. (Which it will very shortly, as we introduce Flask builds.)
Miscellaneous changes:
- Adds a build system readme at `development/build/README.md`
- Removes the `beta` package script. Now, we can instead call: `yarn dist --build-type beta`
- Fixes the casing of some log messages and reorders some parameters in the build system
The version field is now stored in the main `package.json` file rather
than in the base manifest. It is built into the final manifest during
the build script.
This makes it easier to communicate what the current version should be
to our `auto-changelog` script. It's also generally a more conventional
place to keep track of the version, even considering that we're not
publishing to npm.
* build - declare background as html
* build - fill in empty file when a missing file is expected
* lint - fix
* Update development/build/manifest.js
Co-authored-by: Mark Stacey <markjstacey@gmail.com>
* Update development/build/manifest.js
Co-authored-by: Mark Stacey <markjstacey@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Mark Stacey <markjstacey@gmail.com>
