Allow schematics to create file with permissions

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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:

{
  "//": "...",
  "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

[sdharagit]

Does this solution works in Windows??

[hadrien-toma]

Thanks to nrwl/nx#5680 it is working with Nx 😍

[tinesoft]

I'm the author of that PR on nrwl/nx#5680 😇.

I will submit a similar PR for the CLI, hoping it gets accepted as well. ^^

Cheers

[hadrien-toma]

Arf it seems it finally doesn't work with the current latest version @tinesoft 😢 nrwl/nx#6590

[hadrien-toma]

It now working again as expected thanks to nrwl/nx#6592 😍 🚀

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