In Ember, these deprecations are wrapped in an `if(DEBUG)` check, so they are optimized out of the production build. We prefer to keep deprecations in production so that we can collect telemetry and warn theme authors who do not use local development environments.
This commit restores the deprecations as part of our ember-production-deprecations addon.
Motivation: aligning us with JS/Ember practices (runtime deps in `dependencies`, build/dev-time deps in `devDependencies`)
1. Move deps to devDeps where applicable (rule of thumb: it's a devDep unless it's required at runtime by the rails app or it's imported in the addon's code)
2. Remove unused dependencies and add missing ones (in addons)
3. Remove empty `repository` fields
4. Move `engines` and `ember` fields to the bottom
By default, Ember uses a babel transformation to strip out calls to `deprecate()` in production builds. Given that Discourse is a development platform for third-party themes/plugins, having deprecation messages visible in production is essential - many themes/plugins do not have comprehensive test-suites, and rely on production feedback to prompt changes. This commit patches Ember to print its deprecation messages to the console in production. In future we intend to improve the visibility of these to hosting providers and/or site admins.
There are two main parts to this commit:
1. Use yarn's 'resolutions' feature to point `babel-plugin-debug-macros` to a discourse-owned fork. This fork prevents `deprecate()` calls from being stripped. Relevant change can be found at https://github.com/discourse/babel-plugin-debug-macros/commit/d179d613bf
2. Introduce a production shim for Ember's deprecation library, including the `registerDeprecationHandler` API. The default implementation is stripped out of production builds via an `if(DEBUG)` wrapper.
Long term we hope that this kind of functionality can be made available in Ember itself via a flag.
