Move our typescript system to perennial

[zepumph]

From phetsims/chipper#1464. Instead of using tsc from chipper, we need this to be in perennial so we can use typescript in perennial.

• Also phet-core/types should move to perennial let's chat in How/Should perennial be able to use code from phet-core, like IntentionalAny? #371
• Move check.ts from grunt check to perennial (done in Delete tsconfig/all and replace it with a script like grunt check --all chipper#1487
• Copy chipper/tsconfig history to perennial/tsconfig
• New thing in chipper's grunt file to forward to perennial-alias. For linting and type checking.
• lint and lint-everything and type checking should use __dirname so it works in perennial and alias
• move chipper's package.json's typescript entry to perennial. rm -rf node modules for a thorough test
• search for usages of tsc and move to perennial. Use grunt check too
• update documentation about how tsc works.
• eslint may have a peer dependency on this, just check it and be aware. Notify @zepumph if lint problems like that are discovered.
• Delete chipper/tsconfig/ and point all usage sites to perennial-alias

[zepumph]

Looking at this now.

[samreid]

• check https://github.com/phetsims/website-common/blob/32301078d3eeb8c47b17f2b75507ea1069fc653e/git-template-dir/hooks/pre-commit#L1-L9 with @zepumph
• restrictAccessModifiers should use grunt check in perennial
• cd density && node ../chipper/js/scripts/hook-pre-commit.js throws an error

~/phet/root/density$ node ../chipper/js/scripts/hook-pre-commit.js
node:internal/process/promises:391
    triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
    ^

AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: repo provided does not have a tsconfig.json: null
    at check (/Users/samreid/phet/root/perennial-alias/js/grunt/check.ts:87:3)
    at <anonymous> (/Users/samreid/phet/root/chipper/js/scripts/hook-pre-commit-task.ts:85:27)
    at repo (/Users/samreid/phet/root/chipper/js/scripts/hook-pre-commit-task.ts:188:1)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/samreid/phet/root/chipper/js/scripts/hook-pre-commit-task.ts:188:5)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1546:14)
    at Object.transformer (/Users/samreid/phet/root/perennial-alias/node_modules/tsx/dist/register-DpmFHar1.cjs:2:1186)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1317:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1127:12)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:315:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:217:24) {
  generatedMessage: false,
  code: 'ERR_ASSERTION',
  actual: false,
  expected: true,
  operator: '=='
}

Node.js v22.6.0

[samreid]

Most steps done, I'll check in with @zepumph and we cannot do final steps until merge to main.

[zepumph]

• phetsims/chipper@81ff4ea is the right fix, but why didn't this line catch the error?

  perennial/js/grunt/check.ts

  Line 70 in bd47b68

  assert( options.repo || options.all, 'You must provide a repo or use --all' );

[zepumph]

All that is left here:

• Move tsconfig/buildtools/ back to chipper

[samreid]

I moved tsconfig/buildtools/ back to chipper. While I was here I converted copy-history-to-repo from *.js to *.ts and ran it with sage run. Closing.