Remove npm building from martin

[sharkAndshark]

I've not do a deep research about this. Just a wild thought, Is that possible to remove the npm part from martin building? Like downloading(in CI or build.rs) the release from a standalone repo like maplibre/martin-ui ? @nyurik

[nyurik]

I am also having some build issues with it, so we need to figure out a way to include the needed code while also not break the build I guess... @CommanderStorm any thoughts?

[CommanderStorm]

I thoroughly dislike the current setup as well.

Really cumbersome and bad to maintain

• chore: update eslint #1789

At some point we will need node though to build the code into a frontend and the rust tooling in this department does not afaik provide a viable path currently.

We could include V8 as a dependency and do this manually, but I think this would be more brittle and the engineering likely would not pay off.

What we could do is storing "binary blobs".
Though that is disliked by a lot of the community, so likely not a good idea. => Likely not a good idea for trust...
Either manually, or via a "code-gen-ed" crate just containing the npm output of master.

Another approach would be the "stop shooting yourself in the foot" approach of just rendering templates https://github.com/bbox-services/bbox/tree/main/bbox-frontend
We are not using react and the goals for the frontend would only require react once we have maputnik reeealy integrated - something for which I currently don't have the energy 😔