[Feature] Add lifecycle script targets for "link"
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Description
- I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide)
- This feature is important to have in this repository; a contrib plugin wouldn't do
Describe the user story
NPM natively exposes a number of "pre" and "post" scripts for various package lifecycle events like "install" ("preinstall", "postinstall"), "build" ("prebuild", "postbuild"), etc.
It would be great to extend this behavior to concepts like "link" to enable automatic scripted behaviors. For instance, a "postlink" script might run yarn dedupe to eliminate a duplicate copy of react from the node_modules tree between a component library and consuming application.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add lifecycle scripts for "prelink" and "postlink", such that yarn link triggers "prelink" before running and "postlink" after running.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the yarn link command and compare it with the existing lifecycle-script behavior for other package events. Done means prelink runs before linking and postlink runs after linking, with tests covering both hooks.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- nodejs, typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100