I ran into an interesting chicken-and-egg issue attempting to set up a

new virtualenv in order to fully verify the JS build changes. We

currently can't install an editable build with isolation on Python 3.8,

because the currently released version of typelets has an

incompatibility. Attempting pip install --no-build-isolation -e .

fails in a different way: it tries to run build-media.py, which fails

because Review Board and it's dependencies are not installed into the

virtualenv until after the editable build is already set up.
Tracing through all this, it turned out that we're invoking

build-media.py with RUN_COLLECT_STATIC=0, which makes it actually just

do an npm install and nothing else. Given that, I've changed it so

when we're doing an editable install, we run npm install from the

build backend instead of attempting to build static media or i18n files.

This allows doing an editable install without build isolation.

Was able to do pip install --no-build-isolation -e . in RB 7.1 in a

Python 3.8 virtualenv that already had editable installs of Djblets and

typelets in it. Verified that doing so installed NPM packages

appropriately.