feat: create ES5 build by using tsc on build directory #6249
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Following up on previous attempts to create an ES5 build of vega-lite (#5920 and #5619), I have seen @domoritz request a simpler build process. The simplest process I was able to come up with is to use the Typescript compiler on the Javascript build, with an ES5 target.
This PR adds a step
yarn build:es5
, which takes thebuild/vega-lite.js
file as input, and outputs the directory:There is also a step added to
yarn postbuild
which adds:I verified this change in two ways:
Please:
Fixes #1
/Fixes part of #1
)yarn test
)master
branch.[ ] Add new unit tests.[ ] Update the documentation undersite/docs/
+ add examples.