feat: move from braces to brace-expansion

[43081j]

This replaces braces with brace-expansion, a much leaner and more actively maintained package.

[paulmillr]

What's there to maintain? It's probably much slower.

[43081j]

happy to find out if you like! i'll have a look this evening if i can

the leanness is more the reason to move. i do agree there's not much to maintain once this works, other than any security updates, etc.

[paulmillr]

Leanness is:

1. Rewrite chokidar to drop globbing, decreasing amount of deps to a few.
2. Switch to typescript.

Started in #1195, but never finished.

[43081j]

do you want any help?

braces is small fish but still responsible for dependency bloat either way. if we can solve that by dropping globbing altogether though, i'm happy to go in whatever direction it is you want

you were right though, brace-expansion in particular is slightly slower than braces. so i'll go open a PR in brace-expansion to fix that whether we use it here or not 👍

[paulmillr]

Yes, if anyone can help on the rewrite, it would be highly appreciated. Non-trivial task.

[43081j]

sure no worries, i'll take a look at it. non trivial esm/ts conversions are my kind of thing 👀

[43081j]

for anyone curious, i've opened a perf fix in juliangruber/brace-expansion#64 which makes it out-perform braces by a fair amount