feat: use typescript with wing cli and worker thread for preflight

[MarkMcCulloh]

General Vibe

• This is an MVP of getting TS working via the wing cli (compile, run, and test). This is basically only usable for preflight
• I wanted to change as little as possible in the SDK to avoid wasted work once resources are moved to winglibs
• Does not address inflight stuff yet

The entrypoint TS experience is different than the existing issue/story:

import { main } from "ts4wing";

main((app) => {
  // stuff goes here
})

This was due to our usage of a "root" construct for testing isolation. The wing cli needs to have control over the instantiation of resources, so new App() is not really feasible because we don't want users to actually attach stuff at the app-level. It may be possible to get it working with new App() but the hacks needed didn't seem worth it.
An added benefit of this approach is that the user no longer needs to call app.synth()

Anecdotally, I have built an awscdk-based internal framework at a previous job that looked like this for a similar reason (to duplicate stuff across Stages) and it worked pretty well.

Indirect Changes

• Made sure everything matches their @types/node version
• preflight execution now happens in a worker thread instead of a VM
  • VM context did not allow data to be provided past the initially loaded file.
  • In a VM, process.env is useful but pollutes the parent process
  • The overloaded "require" was only useful for the initial file. Now I added a shim that overloads require everywhere to make sure the SDK is loaded properly

Fixes #3678

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Topic	Owner
Wing SDK and utility APIs	@chriscbr
Wing Console	@ainvoner, @skyrpex, @polamoros
JSON, structs, primitives and collections	@hasanaburayyan
Platforms and plugins	@hasanaburayyan
Frontend resources (website, react, etc)	@tsuf239
Language design	@eladb
VSCode extension and language server	@markmcculloh
Compiler architecture, inflights, lifting	@yoav-steinberg
Wing Testing Framework	@tsuf239
Wing CLI	@markmcculloh
Build system, dev environment, releases	@markmcculloh
Library Ecosystem	@chriscbr
Documentation	@hasanaburayyan
SDK test suite	@tsuf239
Examples	@skorfmann
Wing Playground	@eladcon

[monadabot]

Console preview environment is available at https://wing-console-pr-5247.fly.dev 🚀

Last Updated (UTC) 2023-12-20 01:50

[monadabot]

Benchmarks

Comparison to Baseline 🟩⬜⬜🟥⬜🟥⬜🟥⬜🟥🟥🟥🟥

Benchmark	Before	After	Change
version	76ms±0.82	72ms±0.73	-4ms (-4.77%)🟩
jsii_big.test.w -t sim	3410ms±29.12	3362ms±14.6	-48ms (-1.41%)⬜
jsii_big.test.w -t tf-aws	3490ms±17.75	3475ms±14.99	-15ms (-0.42%)⬜
functions_1.test.w -t sim	563ms±4.6	623ms±8.09	+60ms (+10.64%)🟥
functions_1.test.w -t tf-aws	1550ms±21.49	1619ms±36.77	+70ms (+4.51%)⬜
hello_world.test.w -t sim	560ms±5.43	621ms±2.99	+60ms (+10.78%)🟥
hello_world.test.w -t tf-aws	4821ms±41.38	4846ms±32.5	+25ms (+0.53%)⬜
functions_10.test.w -t sim	620ms±3.9	681ms±6.96	+61ms (+9.79%)🟥
functions_10.test.w -t tf-aws	3337ms±37.55	3390ms±12.87	+53ms (+1.6%)⬜
jsii_small.test.w -t sim	524ms±3.51	591ms±6.94	+67ms (+12.76%)🟥
jsii_small.test.w -t tf-aws	649ms±4.97	707ms±6.52	+58ms (+8.89%)🟥
empty.test.w -t sim	527ms±3.37	591ms±4.56	+63ms (+12.01%)🟥
empty.test.w -t tf-aws	651ms±4.94	702ms±4.76	+52ms (+7.92%)🟥

⬜ Within 1.5 standard deviations
🟩 Faster, Above 1.5 standard deviations
🟥 Slower, Above 1.5 standard deviations

Benchmarks may vary outside of normal expectations, especially when running in GitHub Actions CI.

Results

name	mean	min	max	moe	sd
version	72ms	71ms	74ms	1ms	1ms
jsii_big.test.w -t sim	3362ms	3331ms	3402ms	15ms	20ms
jsii_big.test.w -t tf-aws	3475ms	3427ms	3504ms	15ms	21ms
functions_1.test.w -t sim	623ms	602ms	641ms	8ms	11ms
functions_1.test.w -t tf-aws	1619ms	1566ms	1741ms	37ms	51ms
hello_world.test.w -t sim	621ms	616ms	629ms	3ms	4ms
hello_world.test.w -t tf-aws	4846ms	4786ms	4923ms	33ms	45ms
functions_10.test.w -t sim	681ms	670ms	695ms	7ms	10ms
functions_10.test.w -t tf-aws	3390ms	3349ms	3417ms	13ms	18ms
jsii_small.test.w -t sim	591ms	576ms	604ms	7ms	10ms
jsii_small.test.w -t tf-aws	707ms	693ms	728ms	7ms	9ms
empty.test.w -t sim	591ms	581ms	599ms	5ms	6ms
empty.test.w -t tf-aws	702ms	690ms	711ms	5ms	7ms

Last Updated (UTC) 2023-12-20 01:58

[Chriscbr]

import { wing } from "ts4wing";

wing((app) => {
  // stuff goes here
})

Interesting... the API reminds me a little bit of React's createRoot / root.render().

[eladb]

Ship it!

[mergify]

Thanks for contributing, @MarkMcCulloh! This PR will now be added to the merge queue, or immediately merged if mark/ts-cli-2 is up-to-date with main and the queue is empty.

[monadabot]

Congrats! 🚀 This was released in Wing 0.53.3.