Structure repo as workspaces for creation of "shared" package

[benkoppe]

Summary

This PR makes some changes to the overall structure of the codebase, bringing it more in line with modern standards for monorepos.

Context: The npm workspaces feature was created for use in codebases exactly like ours: with a main package.json on the outside, with more specific package.json files in each subfolder to define separate packages. Currently, each package.json is separate: they get their own package-lock.json and node_modules. This makes it hard to share files.

In this PR, the main package.json's name of carriage-web is used as a base for the workspace. The backend is renamed from carriage-web-backend to @carriage-web/server, while the frontend is renamed from carriage-web to @carriage-web/frontend. In this new structure, a single package-lock.json and node_modules is stored in the primary carriage-web folder, allowing for deduplication.

This change also allows for the easy creation of a new package, shared. This shared gets its own package.json, so it can have its own dependencies, and is imported by the frontend and backend. As a result, type and enum definitions that are meant to be shared between the two packages are moved to this shared package. In the frontend and backend, the dependency is defined with a asterisk "*", telling npm to use local copy of the package in the workspace:

package.json

"dependencies": {
    "@carriage-web/shared": "*",
    ...
},

file.ts

import { RideType } from '@carriage-web/shared/types/ride';

CAUTION: We must be careful to avoid placing sensitive code in the shared package, as it can be seen by users!

• modify codebase to use workspaces
• create shared package and migrate shared types from backend
• remove duplicated types from frontend and replace imports with shared
• fully test that things still work properly with this setup:
  • for example, enums don't seem to work well across the shared barrier with Create React App. This problem is fixed when using Vite, however. For that reason, we might want to consider Replace Create React App with Vite #605 before this PR.

Test Plan

Typescript's linting and compiling should be very useful in testing that this migration was successful. However, we will also need to manually comb through the webpage and make sure things are still working with this change, especially pieces of shared code that convert to real javascript such as functions and enums.

Breaking Changes

• Removal of previously used package-lock.json folders in favor of a single consolidated file. Could this have caused multiple packages to upgrade? I'm not sure.
• Devs will need to delete their separate node_modules folder, as this change also deduplicates that folder.
• These changes could have unknown consequences on the CI (such as the building of docker images), and this will need to be checked

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[mjaydenkim]

done