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[rush] Refactor actions to async load all complex dependencies

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start by locating the various Rush CommandLineAction subclasses and their executeAsync methods. Check how the command-line parser, --help, and tab-complete paths load these actions; done means parameter definitions remain synchronously available while each action's business logic is moved behind an async executor import.

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Summary

Refactor the various CommandLineAction subclasses in Rush so that the only logic synchronously included in the class is the definitions of the CLI parameters, and the actual business logic of the class is in an async imported executor.

The purpose of the exercise is to optimize the initial generation of the command line parser and the --help and tab-complete actions, as well as to remove large, complex dependencies from the loading path for actions that don't require them.

The executeAsync method should read values from the CLI arguments, then const { fooExecutor } = await import(/* webpackChunkName: 'foo-executor' */ './FooExecutor.js') then invoke the executor.

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