Begin work on the manifest preparation step for actions

scripts/prepareManifest.mjs

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+/*
+The intent of this script is to do all of the modifications of the
+manifest file that we need to do in order to release the system.
+This can include removing dev-only fields/attributes that end
+users will never, and should never, care about nor need.
+*/
+import { readFile, writeFile } from "fs/promises";
+
+const MANIFEST_PATH = `system.json`;
+
+const {
+	DOWNLOAD_URL,
+	LATEST_URL,
+} = process.env;
+
+let manifest;
+try {
+	manifest = JSON.parse(await readFile(MANIFEST_PATH, `utf-8`));
+} catch {
+	console.error(`Failed to parse manifest file.`);
+	process.exit(1);
+};
+
+
+// Filter out dev-only resources
+if (manifest.esmodules) {
+	manifest.esmodules = manifest.esmodules.filter(
+		filepath => !filepath.startsWith(`dev/`)
+	);
+};
+
+// Remove dev flags
+delete manifest.flags?.hotReload;
+
+if (Object.keys(manifest.flags).length === 0) {
+	delete manifest.flags;
+};
+
+await writeFile(MANIFEST_PATH, JSON.stringify(manifest, undefined, `\t`));