Summary:
Previously, our CI script would run `yarn backend`, which has the
side-effect of erasing the `bin/` directory. By itself, this is not
great, but not awful. However, this frequently triggers a race condition
in Prettier, causing the `check-pretty` step of the build to fail. (More
details: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues/4468.)
This patch changes the CI script to build the backend scripts into a
temporary directory.
Test Plan:
Before applying this patch: `yarn backend` and then `yarn travis`. If
this consistently causes a Travis failure due to `check-pretty`, then
your machine can reproduce the race condition that we‛re trying to
eliminate. (Otherwise, you can try creating a bunch more Git history…
I’m not really sure what to say. It is a race condition, after all.)
Then, apply this patch, and repeat the above steps; note that the error
no longer occurs, and that the build output is to a temporary directory.
wchargin-branch: ci-preserve-bin
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