[Feature] Separate the compat data into its own utils package

[molant]

The browser compat data gets updated fairly often. Right now our compat util lives in utils which is used virtually by all hints and thus causing all the packages to update everytime there's something new.

We should take it to a different package to avoid releasing that often.

This will be a breaking change on utils.

[molant]

Adding @atopal as we talked about this earlier today 🙂

[molant]

Going to take a look at this now.

[Elchi3]

We should take it to a different package to avoid releasing that often.

How often do you plan to update the data? Have users reported issues with outdated information?

[molant]

How often do you plan to update the data?

Dependabot runs once per week and our plans is to publish once every other week more or less.

The issue is that the compat data is in the utils package that is virtually used by all our other packages. Updating utils means all the other packages (70+) need to be bumped and published to npm. By separating the compat data to a separate package only 4-5 packages will need to be published if only the compat data changes.

The interesting part of this change is that we are documenting a lot more how we query the browser compat data. Please take a look and let us know if this could be useful for other projects using that data.

[Elchi3]

Ah, got it now. Thank you for elaborating! :)

The interesting part of this change is that we are documenting a lot more how we query the browser compat data. Please take a look and let us know if this could be useful for other projects using that data.

Yes, awesome! We should considers this if / when we start any work on mdn/browser-compat-data#4106