experiment with moving from npm to yarn

scripts/build_interface.py

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from shutil import copytree, rmtree, copyfileobj
 import os
 import gzip
+
+# brotli has better compression than gzip but requires https so leaving here for future 
 # import brotli
 
 Import("env")
@@ -11,6 +13,8 @@ def gzipFile(file):
         with gzip.open(file + '.gz', 'wb') as f_out:
             copyfileobj(f_in, f_out)
     os.remove(file)
+
+    # brotli version:
     # with open(file + '.br', 'wb') as f_out:
     #     with open(file, 'rb') as f_in:
     #         f_out.write(brotli.compress(f_in.read(), quality=11))
@@ -26,13 +30,13 @@ def buildWeb():
     os.chdir("interface")
     print("Building web interface...")
     try:
-        env.Execute("npm install")
-        env.Execute("npx typesafe-i18n --no-watch")
+        env.Execute("yarn install")
+        env.Execute("yarn run typesafe-i18n --no-watch")
         with open("./src/i18n/i18n-util.ts") as r:
             text = r.read().replace("Locales = 'pl'", "Locales = 'en'")
         with open("./src/i18n/i18n-util.ts", "w") as w:
             w.write(text)
-        env.Execute("npm run build")
+        env.Execute("yarn run build")
         
         buildPath = Path("build")
         wwwPath = Path("../data/www")
@@ -40,7 +44,7 @@ def buildWeb():
         if wwwPath.exists() and wwwPath.is_dir():
             rmtree(wwwPath)
 
-        print("Copying web files to data directory")
+        print("Copying web files from build to data/www...")
         copytree(buildPath, wwwPath)
         for currentpath, folders, files in os.walk(wwwPath):
             for file in files: