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Vite: Remove module-graph scanner (#16631 )

Alternative to #16425

Fixes #16585
Fixes #16389
Fixes #16252
Fixes #15794
Fixes #16646
Fixes #16358

This PR changes the Vite plugin to use the file-system to discover
potential class names instead of relying on the module-graph. This comes
after a lot of testing and various issue reports where builds that span
different Vite instances were missing class names.

Because we now scan for candidates using the file-system, we can also
remove a lot of the bookkeeping necessary to make production builds and
development builds work as we no longer have to change the resulting
stylesheet based on the `transform` callbacks of other files that might
happen later.

This change comes at a small performance penalty that is noticeable
especially on very large projects with many files to scan. However, we
offset that change by fixing an issue that I found in the current Vite
integration that did a needless rebuild of the whole Tailwind root
whenever any source file changed. Because of how impactful this change
is, I expect many normal to medium sized projects to actually see a
performance improvement after these changes. Furthermore we do plan to
continue to use the module-graph to further improve the performance in
dev mode.

## Test plan

- Added new integration tests with cases found across the issues above.
- Manual testing by adding a local version of the Vite plugin to repos
from the issue list above and the [tailwindcss
playgrounds](https://github.com/philipp-spiess/tailwindcss-playgrounds).