Migrate globby to tinyglobby

[benmccann]

Run npx github:Fuzzyma/e18e-tools globby -n 100 -U https://npm.devminer.xyz/registry -q -o md to find the first 100

Top 10:

#	Downloads	Traffic	Version	Package	Issue
1	56.24M	391.34 GB	^14.0.2	del
2	35.26M	245.36 GB	^14.0.0	copy-webpack-plugin
3	21.20M	147.54 GB	^11.1.0	stylelint
4	18.40M	128.05 GB	^11.0.4	react-dev-utils
5	16.21M	112.82 GB	^11.0.3	@graphql-tools/graphql-file-loader
6	15.52M	107.97 GB	^11.0.3	@graphql-tools/json-file-loader
7	14.26M	99.23 GB	^11.0.3	@graphql-tools/code-file-loader
8	12.90M	89.78 GB	^14.0.1	@storybook/codemod	storybookjs/storybook#29227
9	11.25M	78.28 GB	^11.1.0	@oclif/core
10	10.19M	70.92 GB	^14.0.1	@storybook/cli

[benmccann]

@JReinhold two of the top 10 packages here are Storybook packages. I was wondering if this one's one your list or is something you've looked at?

[JReinhold]

It has been on our radar but we didn't get around to actually do it.
We have an issue for it at storybookjs/storybook#29227 and an attempt at doing it in storybookjs/storybook#29271 which had to be abandoned due to time constraints.
It's probably stale at this point, but could be a good starting point for anyone that wants to pick it up.

[webpro]

Not sure if it's documented somewhere, but I've read something along the lines of "tinyglobby is a drop-in replacement for globby" a few times now. I feel like a missing piece here is worth mentioning: globby has support for .gitignore files, whereas tinyglobby does not. Lines/patterns in .gitignore files are different from glob patterns, and allow to "unignore" previous ignore patterns. Afaic this can't be replicated in glob patterns alone. None of the major glob libs have support for negated ignore patterns. This may lead to unexpected behavior cq subtle bugs when migrating from globby to tinyglobby.

This was raised in SuperchupuDev/tinyglobby#32, just repeating it here to increase awareness. It also contains an example use case.

To overcome the limitation, here's a PR in picomatch (micromatch/picomatch#137) that tinyglobby could use. Since the PR wasn't responded to I forked and published https://www.npmjs.com/package/unmatch to be used in SuperchupuDev/tinyglobby#70. Obviously forking isn't ideal, but I'm not really seeing a better alternative and currently I don't fancy writing a new glob lib myself. And picomatch itself, despite seeing some recent activity, also is pretty stale (latest release 10 months ago at the time of writing).