Infrastructure Roadmap

[Pospelove]

CI/CD

• Perform Windows and Linux builds.
• Test if CMake build is able to produce dist directory with the expected content.
• TypeScript code formatting.
• C++ code formatting.
• CMake code formatting.

Build system

• Measure the time it takes for each add_subdirectory in top-level CMakeLists.txt to be done to understand which projects are eating up CMake generation times.
• Remove skyrimPlatform.d.ts from skymp5-functions-lib. The skyrimPlatform.ts built by TSConverter should be used.
• Npm install should not dump warnings into the output stream.
• Npm install commands should not be called if everything is already installed, because it's slow
• Custom targets (and these are all targets, except for C++ targets) are being built every time, and not only when the files they depend on have changed. This slows down the build and should be fixed.
• Remove dev_service (JS part of the build system). Reimplement its functionality in CMake.
• Remove legacy vs_startup_project.
• Add and document ability to develop and use certain subprojects instead of the whole repository.
• Ensure that CMAKE_BINARY_DIR is ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/build (Add check to CMakeLists.txt that only "build" is supported as a binary dir #82).
• Ensure that all pdb files are placed into build/dist.
• Visual Studio should adequately display source tree for C++ and non-C++ targets.

Build system: Dependency management
It would be nice to unify the process of dependencies installation and fetch all of them from vcpkg:

• CommonLibSSE
• TiltedCore
• TiltedHooks
• TiltedReverse
• TiltedUI
• TiltedOnline (only ui_process is required currently)
• SKSE64
• xbyak
• directxtk (it seems we already use vcpkg version, just remove outdated files from the repo)
• frida
• ctpl
• CEF
• cr
• MakeID
• npm dependencies (super-experimental)

Platform/compiler support

• Add Dockerfile for building on Linux.
• Allow building without -fpermissive on Linux. #95

Feature deprecation/removal

• Rewrite TypeScript part of the server in C++, drop NodeJS.
• Remove existing CLI.
• Remove server-settings.json in favor of CLI.
• Use SLikeNet for browser messages instead of WebSocket.
• We should remove hacky _libkey.js.
• NPCs and Papyrus scripts should be whitelisted on the server.

Remove unnecessary downloads
Downloads should be controlled by external tooling. Client/CEF should not download anything from the server.

• Bundle UI with the client, not the server.
• Remove skymp5-client.js and its update system from the server.

Privacy

• Should not set enable-media-stream in Chromium by default.

WIP. Feel free to leave comments.

[Pospelove]

After a private talk, closing all "roadmap" issues for now to standardize issue form.