Publish carton as npm package

[MaxDesiatov]

Based on a discussion with one of our users, it would make sense to publish carton on npm, similarly to how esbuild or swc provide binaries on npm. This would allow users primarily relying on npm to integrate carton and its commands into their npm-based workflow.

[j-f1]

A side benefit of this would be that anyone with Node installed would be able to run npx carton dev with no other install required.

[kateinoigakukun]

FWIW: wasm-pack provides similar package https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-pack/tree/master/npm

[MaxDesiatov]

We need to take into account swiftlang/swift-package-manager#3905. Until that's merged, we'll have to build with --static-swift-stdlib on Linux. Which we probably should be doing already anyway?

[MaxDesiatov]

Potential API for the package to be callable from other build tools (suggested by @ephemer)

const carton = require("carton");

carton.build("/package/to/package.swift").then(result => {
  console.log(result.wasmPath)
  console.log(result.javascriptSource)
});

[kateinoigakukun]

It now became a SwiftPM Plugin, so don't need to publish it as npm package now.