[Epic] Build infrastructure improvements

[javiercn]

This issue collects all the individual issues for improvements that we want to do moving forward to our infrastructure.

Repo dev and contributor experience

• VS Code and VS 4 Mac experience. Improve repo development experience on VS Code and VS4Mac #27260
• Updating public API files outside of Visual Studio. Update public API files outside visual studio #27605
• Remove top-level build scripts in favor of area-specific build scripts (Remove top-level build scripts in favor of area-specific build scripts #27631)
• Reduce E2E test dependencies. Reduce E2E test dependencies #27610
• Add git pre-commit hooks for applying formatting to source (Add git pre-commit hooks for applying formatting to source #27632)
• Dynamically acquire dependencies needed for each project Dynamically acquire dependencies needed for each project #27633
• Improve experience for working with individual projects in the monorepo Improve experience for working with individual projects in the monorepo #27634

Complete Helix migration

• Run hosting functional tests on Helix. [Helix] Enable Hosting.FunctionalTests #8247
• Run Components end to end tests on Helix. [Helix] Enable Components.E2E tests #6857

Codebase quality improvements

• Regularly update our JavaScript dependencies to the latest versions [Infrastructure] Figure out a process to reliably update our JS tooling and dependencies on a regular cadence #29925
• Enable more code analyzers for the product. Consider additional FxCop rules to enable #24055
  • The person working on this will drive the effort, which consists of choosing an initial set of analyzers to enable.
• Change default server for samples from IIS Express to Kestrel (Change default server for samples from IIS Express to Kestrel #27630)

Testing reliability reporting tool

• Bring back what's broken in some shape or form. Tracking flaky tests over time and driving the process towards fixing them. #27606

Performance readiness

• Ensure our microbenchmarks can run. Ensure our microbenchmarks are healthy and stay healthy across the repo #27607

Infrastructure code duplication removal

• Unify test/publish for helix/local scenarios Unify test/publish for helix/local scenarios #27296

Engineering system

• Consider adding a shipping package baseline test Consider adding a shipping package baseline test #28129

Misc

• Switch to MIT license Switch to MIT license #18873

[dougbu]

Including this in the DoI project for discussion in that context

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[mkArtakMSFT]

Assigned this to 6.0 as we will plan to tackle individual items on this list throughout the preview releases.