Allow schematics to create file with permissions
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Description
### Bug Report or Feature Request (mark with an `x`)
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- [ ] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [x] feature request
```
### Versions
any
### Desired functionality
I'm writing schematics to help colleagues scaffold applications and libraries following our internal guidelines. One part of our set-up is the use of a file called `Taskfile` to contain scripts instead of cramming complicated one-liners in yarn run-scripts. This file should be executable, but a schematic cannot create executable files. The result is a broken package because `./Taskfile: Permission denied`.
I've got a simple workaround:
The schematic in question is based on `@schematics/angular:library`. It runs the `NodePackageInstallTask` at the end. This allows me to create a selfdestructing `preinstall` script in the newly scaffolded `package.json`:
```json
{
"//": "...",
"scripts": {
"preinstall": "chmod +x Taskfile && ex +g/preinstall/d -cwq package.json",
"prepublish": "./Taskfile build",
"test": "./Taskfile test"
}
}
```
This works, but it feels like a hack to me. It would be cleaner if either
- file permissions were respected, as the source file for the scaffold has correct permissions; or
- the schematic could modify permissions
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start at the @schematics/angular:library entry point and follow how it creates files before the NodePackageInstallTask runs. Use the executable Taskfile and the generated package.json workaround as the reproduction case. Done means a schematic can create or modify a file with executable permissions without relying on the self-destructing preinstall script.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100