[core] Scripts can't be used in other repositories

[michaldudak]

A continuation of #35036 (comment)

Summary: some of our infrastructure scripts assume they are being run in the mui/material-ui repo. This makes it impossible to run them in the MUI X or Toolpad repos. Scripts should have the workspace root configurable.

Additionally, one way of making the scripts less coupled to Material UI would be to extract them into their own repository. All projects could then import them as a package (either from npm or using git).

[oliviertassinari]

Some of our infrastructure scripts assume they are being run in the mui/material-ui repo.

It reminds me of this #22071. I solved a related problem with a script configuration and process.cwd() for prettier.

material-ui/scripts/prettier.js

Line 141 in 7bd7c21

.option('branch', {

material-ui/scripts/prettier.js

Line 16 in 7bd7c21

const workspaceRoot = process.cwd();

This is effectively how pretty-quick (that we are using now) solves the same problem: https://github.com/azz/pretty-quick/blob/eaf29e2a5a7e20d6a7d17672812b6340739dadd6/bin/pretty-quick.js#L18.

Sebastian suggested in #23474 that there might be a better way but I couldn't understand it.

[Janpot]

Sebastian suggested in #23474 that there might be a better way but I couldn't understand it.

process.cwd is fine for this, one optimization you could do is to make sure it works when ran from a subfolder