chore: Move to Typescript (#2783)

This PR moves the entire project to Typescript. Due to the ~1000 ignores this will lead to a messy codebase for a while, but the churn is worth it – all of those ignore comments are places that were never type-safe previously.

closes #1282

server/utils/args.ts

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+/**
+ * Get the value of a command line argument
+ *
+ * @param {string} name The name of the argument
+ * @param {string} shortName The optioanl short name
+ *
+ * @returns {string} The value of the argument.
+ */
+export function getArg(name: string, shortName?: string) {
+  return process.argv
+    .slice(2)
+    .filter(
+      (arg) =>
+        arg.startsWith(`--${name}=`) ||
+        (shortName && arg.startsWith(`-${shortName}=`))
+    )
+    .map((arg) => arg.split("=")[1])
+    .join(",");
+}