chore: improve externals configuration in chromatic

[JReinhold]

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To cut down on Chromatic snapshot usage, we're trying to be more aggressive about not cache busting as often. Currently changes to nuxt.config.ts and app/assets/main.css accounts for over 5000 snapshots a week, which are most likely not necessary.

If we see that the cache is now busted to rarely, we can continue iterating on this.

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This pull request modifies the chromatic.config.json file to update the externals configuration list. Specifically, it removes public/** and app/assets/** from the externals definition, whilst retaining .storybook/** and uno.config.ts. The configuration changes are minimal, affecting only one line net change in the file. No other configuration fields or exported entities are altered.

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Description check	✅ Passed	The pull request description provides clear context about reducing Chromatic snapshot usage by adjusting externals configuration, directly relating to the changeset in chromatic.config.json.

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[cylewaitforit]

Thanks @JReinhold !

I had to move the theme out of uno.config.ts in #2252. So depending on if this merges before or after I will probably add uno.theme.ts to this array soon. I think we would want to bust cache on changes to either file but I imagine that neither file would really change all that often though.

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[ghostdevv]

Thanks @JReinhold !

I had to move the theme out of uno.config.ts in #2252. So depending on if this merges before or after I will probably add uno.theme.ts to this array soon. I think we would want to bust cache on changes to either file but I imagine that neither file would really change all that often though.

I just merged your PR with main and added the change there!