feat: rewrite in typescript

[hacdias]

This is part of #129.

• Rewrite source code
• Rewrite tests (ongoing)
• DHT API moved to Routing. DHT calls kept, but marked as deprecated.

[hacdias]

@achingbrain I'm invoking your expertise here. I just finished moving all src/ to TypeScript and now it's time to update the tests. However, js-ipfsd-ctl relies ipfs-core-types so I don't get the right type out of the factory. One option could be to just ignore the error:

  let ipfs: KuboClient

  before(async function () {
    // @ts-expect-error: js-ipfsd-ctl relies on core types.
    ipfs = (await f.spawn()).api
  })

But that would probably not the best option. Any recommendations?

This is already revealing to be a larger effort than I expected, but makes sense since all the JS things are tied together. /cc @lidel

[hacdias]

@SgtPooki I'm assigning you here since you said yesterday you could probably take this on. I think this is an important thing to get finished since: (1) it is used by the interop tests from helia and kubo, (2) kubo development is slowed down because of this.

There are some things to solve:

1. Migrate all the remaining tests to typescript.
2. Figure out the js-ipfsd-ctl situation (feat: rewrite in typescript #128 (comment)): do we want to keep this? Is this used anywhere else besides here and in IPFS Desktop?
   • If it's only used for Kubo in IPFS Desktop and interop, I think we could move the relevant code to this repo. Some utility function that helps spawning the daemon.

[SgtPooki]

Figure out the js-ipfsd-ctl situation (#128 (comment)): do we want to keep this? Is this used anywhere else besides here and in IPFS Desktop?

@hacdias that library is still used by a number of helia things for benchmarks and tests

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