Local MacOS/Linux snapshot generation

[ivanbuhov]

• Build mksnapshot tools for MacOS X
• Refactor (rewrite) the whole plugin to build snapshots locally instead of downloading pre-build packages
• Enable generation of .so files instead of .blobs in case the user has Android NDK locally installed.
• Handle gracefully webpack/snapshot errors. Rebuild mksnapshot tools to log on the console in case of JS error.
• Remove the webpack bundle generation from the snapshot package.
• Refactor/move the snapshot generation logic as next step after the nativescript-dev-webpack bundling step (probably as a webpack plugin). Snapshot package is using webpack 1.2, nativescript-dev-webpack is using > 2.0, so this may require some additional effort. The snapshot should be generated from a single webpack bundle produced by the nativescript-dev-webpackplugin.
• Provide an easy to use snapshot configuration mechanism.
  • Making a webpack bundle snapshottable requires some manual changes of its webpack config file. Ideally we will handle these changes automatically
• Introduce continuous integration builds.
• Linux support
• Documentation

[ivanbuhov]

The functionality described above is part of our nativescript-dev-webpack plugin. It already has support for generating V8 heap snapshots of a single bundle file.
This plugin will be deprecated in the future in favor of nativescript-dev-webpack . We recommend migrating your apps to use nativescript-dev-webpackwith enabled snapshot generation. More info on how to setup Webpack bundling in NativeScript you can find here.