[Monorepo] Enforce task order

[beefchimi]

At the moment, I am just using pnpm for all of our monorepo needs. Ideally, I keep it this way... as I don't really want to introduce additional tools and over complicate things.

But, the main issue we have is that pnpm doesn't really allow any explicit "task order". Example:

• I want to run some tasks in parralel.
• Application B consumes Package A.
  • The build of Package A needs to be present for Application B to consume.
• There is no garuntee that the build step for Package A will be run before the build step of Application B.

A tool like nx can be used to orchestrate the order in which dependencies are built. I did experiment with this, but ultimately felt it wasn't worth the added tooling.

Alternative solution

Honestly - at least for the codebase in its form today - all we really need is to point directly to the earwurm source (rather than its /dist) when in local development.

If only there was some additional config for a package.json that allowed you to declare a "local dev import path".

Possible leads:

• https://dev.to/rxliuli/directly-point-to-source-code-when-referencing-dependencies-in-monorepo-3lai
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74688869/resolving-packages-directly-to-typescript-source-in-monorepo-package-json-files