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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.

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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

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