Manually execute `ng new` deps postinstall scripts
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# 🚀 Feature request
### Command (mark with an `x`)
- [X] new
### Description
Currently, `ng new` will automatically run `npm install` which (if the user has not disabled it), automatically runs all postinstall scripts. This can be a vulnerability since any compromised package in the NPM dependency graph could add a postinstall step to install malware on developer machines.
### Describe the solution you'd like
We could reduce the attack surface by disabling postinstall on the automatic `npm install` and then manually invoke the postinstall for a known set of required packages. Only 3 packages currently use postinstall steps, so limiting execution to just those would significantly reduce the attack surface for a potential supply chain attack.
One possible concern is for dependencies which add a required postinstall step in the future. We can pretty easily add a test to make sure we aren't missing any postinstall steps from our transitive dependencies, though this inherently breaks abstraction somewhat. Adding a postinstall step is (somewhat debate-ably) a breaking change, so any package which adds one in the future should require a major version bump where we have an opportunity to allowlist it.
The one edge case I can think of is if we have:
```
ng-new-app@0.0.0 -> package-a@^1.0.0 -> package-b@^1.0.0
```
And `package-b` gets a new postinstall step in `v2.0.0`. However, `package-a` may be able to manage the breakage without violating their own public API (or maybe doesn't notice the new postinstall step) and simply bumps to `v1.0.1`. This would immediately be pulled in to the next `ng new` command and fail. I think such a scenario would actually be a bad patch release for `package-a`, since adding a required postinstall step is fundamentally a breaking change. We would rely on NPM package maintainers to make the right semver-compatible decisions for a somewhat nuanced case, but this is probably better than the alternative.
Guia de contribuição
Direção de pesquisa
Comece examinando o fluxo de ng new que executa automaticamente npm install e determine como os scripts postinstall são tratados atualmente. A tarefa estará concluída quando a execução automática abrangente de postinstall for desabilitada, apenas os pacotes conhecidos necessários forem invocados e uma cobertura for adicionada para detectar dependências postinstall ausentes.
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Avaliação
- Stack de tecnologia
- typescript
- Domínio
- cli, security
- Tipo de issue
- Funcionalidade
- Dificuldade
- 5/5
- Tempo estimado
- Mais de uma semana
- Status de atividade
- Estagnada
- Clareza
- Razoavelmente clara
- Facilidade para iniciantes
- 35/100