Investigate new build process with more modern tooling.

[apburnes]

Look at improving and simplifying the build process of Pages app and admin.

Acceptance Criteria

• [X] Identify a group of available tools to test.

  • [x] Rspack
  • [ ] Parcel
  • [ ] Vite

• [ ] Answer the following:

  • Does it improve CI and local env build times?
    • Rspack improves initial bundle time by ~5 seconds
  • Does it improve developer experience?
    • Rspack slightly improves initial build time
  • Does it simplify the configuration across applications and environments?
    • Rspack is a minimal effort lift from webpack, a large effort from rollup
    • Parcel is a large effort lift from webpack, a medium effort from rollup
  • Does it have a proven track record and strong OSS community?
    • Rspack has hit v1
  • Is it better to do nothing?
    • With minimal bundling improvements for the amount of input, the best option is to stay as is.
    • To improve dev on local, separating the API and frontend watch commands will greatly improve developer experience. When an update happens to the API, the frontend is automatically rebuilt taking ~20 second rebuild. When updating the frontend, hot module replacement updates the frontend in milliseconds.