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Motivation
We are planning to have a code generation step for #290, and it will add some complexities to the packaging system.
However, the current de-facto packaging tool, carton has several issues.
carton originally served three main purposes: installing the Swift toolchain, building Web apps, and running tests. However, with the improvements in the Swift SDK, toolchain installation has been significantly enhanced, making it no longer an issue that our tools need to solve.
On the other hand, building and testing are heavily dependent on JavaScriptKit, so implementing them as a plugin within JavaScriptKit rather than maintaining carton separately is a more appropriate approach.
This change brings several benefits:
With this change, package management becomes more streamlined and consistent, improving both the developer experience and maintainability.
Additionally, this new packaging mechanism does not depend on SwiftPM's resource bundle, so #262 should be resolved too.
Example
With this change, any SwiftPM Package using JavaScriptKit can produce an ES Module with the following: