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This updates the Gutenberg build integration to use the new --fast flag, which skips TypeScript-related steps (version validation, tsc --build, and type declaration checks) that aren't needed when building for WordPress Core. These steps only produce .d.ts type declaration files which aren't shipped with Core.

The Gutenberg ref is also updated to include the commit that adds the --fast flag support.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64393

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For reference, I compared the build step in three jobs:

1- Before the move to the new integration flow 1m19 seconds
2- After the move to the new integration flow 6m17 seconds
3- After this PR 1m49 seconds

So I think with this PR we're effectively back to similar decent performance levels for the build commands and comparable to previous jobs without losing the benefits for the "checkout & build" approach.

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@youknowriad youknowriad deleted the update/make-gutenberg-build-faster branch January 8, 2026 10:01
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