build: stop pre-compiling lint-md

PR-URL: #55266
Reviewed-By: Claudio Wunder <cwunder@gnome.org>
Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com>

Author: avivkeller

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -22,3 +22,16 @@ updates:
         applies-to: version-updates
         patterns:
           - '*'
+
+  - package-ecosystem: npm
+    directory: /tools/lint-md
+    schedule:
+      interval: monthly
+    commit-message:
+      prefix: tools
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 10
+    groups:
+      lint-md:
+        applies-to: version-updates
+        patterns:
+          - '*'

.github/workflows/tools.yml

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ on:
           - histogram
           - icu
           # - libuv
-          - lint-md-dependencies
           - llhttp
           - minimatch
           - nbytes
@@ -187,24 +186,6 @@ jobs:
           #     cat temp-output
           #     tail -n1 temp-output | grep "NEW_VERSION=" >> "$GITHUB_ENV" || true
           #     rm temp-output
-          - id: lint-md-dependencies
-            subsystem: tools
-            label: tools
-            run: |
-              cd tools/lint-md
-              npm ci
-              NEW_VERSION=$(npm outdated --parseable | cut -d: -f4 | xargs)
-              if [ "$NEW_VERSION" != "" ]; then
-                echo "NEW_VERSION=$NEW_VERSION" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-                rm -rf package-lock.json node_modules
-                # Include $NEW_VERSION to explicitly update the package.json
-                # entry for the dependency and also so that semver-major updates
-                # are not skipped.
-                npm install --ignore-scripts $NEW_VERSION
-                npm install --ignore-scripts
-                cd ../..
-                make lint-md-rollup
-              fi
           - id: llhttp
             subsystem: deps
             label: dependencies

.gitignore

@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ tools/*/*.i.tmp
 /tools/doc/node_modules
 /tools/clang-format/node_modules
 /tools/eslint/node_modules
+/tools/lint-md/node_modules
 
 # === Rules for test artifacts ===
 /*.tap

Makefile

@@ -1335,21 +1335,6 @@ bench-addons-clean:
 	$(RM) -r benchmark/napi/*/build
 	$(RM) benchmark/napi/.buildstamp
 
-.PHONY: lint-md-rollup
-lint-md-rollup:
-	$(RM) tools/.*mdlintstamp
-	cd tools/lint-md && npm ci && npm run build
-
-.PHONY: lint-md-clean
-.NOTPARALLEL: lint-md-clean
-lint-md-clean:
-	$(RM) -r tools/lint-md/node_modules
-	$(RM) tools/.*mdlintstamp
-
-.PHONY: lint-md-build
-lint-md-build:
-	$(warning Deprecated no-op target 'lint-md-build')
-
 ifeq ("$(wildcard tools/.mdlintstamp)","")
 LINT_MD_NEWER =
 else
@@ -1361,8 +1346,13 @@ LINT_MD_FILES = $(shell $(FIND) $(LINT_MD_TARGETS) -type f \
 	! -path '*node_modules*' ! -path 'test/fixtures/*' -name '*.md' \
 	$(LINT_MD_NEWER))
 run-lint-md = tools/lint-md/lint-md.mjs $(LINT_MD_FILES)
+
+# Check for a specific file, as (empty) directories are persisted in git.
+tools/lint-md/node_modules/remark-parse/package.json:
+	-cd tools/lint-md && $(call available-node,$(run-npm-ci))
+
 # Lint all changed markdown files maintained by us
-tools/.mdlintstamp: $(LINT_MD_FILES)
+tools/.mdlintstamp: tools/lint-md/node_modules/remark-parse/package.json $(LINT_MD_FILES)
 	$(info Running Markdown linter...)
 	@$(call available-node,$(run-lint-md))
 	@touch $@
@@ -1372,7 +1362,7 @@ lint-md: lint-js-doc | tools/.mdlintstamp ## Lint the markdown documents maintai
 
 run-format-md = tools/lint-md/lint-md.mjs --format $(LINT_MD_FILES)
 .PHONY: format-md
-format-md: ## Format the markdown documents maintained by us in the codebase.
+format-md: tools/lint-md/node_modules/remark-parse/package.json ## Format the markdown documents maintained by us in the codebase.
 	@$(call available-node,$(run-format-md))
 
 
@@ -1601,6 +1591,7 @@ lint-clean: ## Remove linting artifacts.
 	$(RM) tools/.*lintstamp
 	$(RM) .eslintcache
 	$(RM) -r tools/eslint/node_modules
+	$(RM) -r tools/lint-md/node_modules
 	$(RM) tools/pip/site_packages
 
 HAS_DOCKER ?= $(shell command -v docker > /dev/null 2>&1; [ $$? -eq 0 ] && echo 1 || echo 0)

eslint.config.mjs

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ export default [
       'test/message/esm_display_syntax_error.mjs',
       'tools/github_reporter/**',
       'tools/icu/**',
-      'tools/lint-md/lint-md.mjs',
     ],
   },
   // #endregion