Plugin presets

[ehmicky]

This is a follow-up on #227 and #18.

We want to allow bundles/presets of plugins.

The last solution we had was to allow plugins to return an array of objects instead of a single object. I started implementing it and realized this solution had many issues:

1. There's no way for plugin presets to set the configuration of each individual plugin. Calling the plugin top-level function with a pluginConfig object does not work since plugin hooks also receive a pluginConfig object as argument.
2. Individual plugins would re-use the id and type from the plugin preset, which makes them harder to debug in logs.
3. There's no way for users to set the enabled, timeout, etc. options to individual plugins
4. There's no way for users to set plugin configuration options if two plugins uses the same configuration property name.

Now there's a solution! Plugin presets can simply be packaged as shareable configuration. Example:

@netlify/preset-webperf would export:

plugins:
  - type: '@netlify/plugin-lighthouse'
    config:
      currentVersion: '0.0.3'
      compareWithVersion: '0.0.1'
  - type: '@netlify/plugin-subfont'
  - type: '@netlify/plugin-svgoptimizer'

User would use the preset like this:

extends: ['@netlify/preset-webperf']

User can override any preset's plugin configuration:

extends: ['@netlify/preset-webperf']
plugins:
  - type: '@netlify/plugin-subfont'
    config:
      foo: bar

[ehmicky]

Done by #373.

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