request: Allow overriding default scripts within melos.yaml

[btrautmann]

Is there an existing feature request for this?

• I have searched the existing issues.

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Description

In v5.1.0 the format command was introduced as a default command. However, our team already had a format command with some specifics used that are not supported by default filtering (AFAIK). We could run it by invoking either melos run format or melos format. In the latter case, melos knew that if we had a script named format it should run that. However, when v5.1.0 was introduced, the built-in command made it so that we could no longer run our format command via melos format.

This means we now need to change our command to something like fooFormat to avoid the collision if we indeed want melos fooFormat to be possible. This makes DX slightly worse/more confusing, and it would be ideal if we could override the default behavior with our own behavior by way of defining the script in melos.yaml.

Expected behavior: Defining a script foo in melos.yaml would override default behavior of melos foo, if any exists, such that you can run melos foo or melos run foo and have the expected behavior.

Current behavior: Running melos foo will have potentially different behavior than running melos run foo if a built-in foo command exists and functions differently.

Please let me know if I can offer any other details to make my request more clear!

Reasoning

I hope my previous answer addressed my reasoning!

Additional context and comments

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Other

• I'm interested in working on a PR for this.

[btrautmann]

I just updated the Issue Description to better clarify a few things after playing with this more

[spydon]

Sounds good! Sorry for the late reply.
I'll assign you to the issue. :)

[spydon]

It is actually already possible to override scripts in melos >v7.

[btrautmann]

It is actually already possible to override scripts in melos >v7.

Are you sure? I'm on 7.0.0-dev.7 and I believe it's this line and this one that basically remove any of your scripts that share a name with a built-in one.

I tried this just now on that version of melos by declaring a script called format that does a simple echo and I ran melos format and it ran the built-in command, not mine.

[spydon]

Are you sure? I'm on 7.0.0-dev.7 and I believe it's this line and this one that basically remove any of your scripts that share a name with a built-in one.

I tried this just now on that version of melos by declaring a script called format that does a simple echo and I ran melos format and it ran the built-in command, not mine.

Are you sure that you have 7.0.0-dev.7 in your pubspec too? Because I tried the same thing, and it worked for me. 😅

[spydon]

@btrautmann You're right, I accidentally tried with test before, tried with format now.
Do you want to provide a PR that fixes it? :)

[btrautmann]

@btrautmann You're right, I accidentally tried with test before, tried with format now. Do you want to provide a PR that fixes it? :)

Yeah I'm hoping I can get a PR up sooooon. It should be pretty easy, my plan is to just overwrite the default commands (rather than excludeing the custom ones that have the same name as a built-in one) or alternatively checking the custom ones before adding built-in ones and only adding built-ins that don't match a custom one. Either way, I don't think it'll be terribly hard, I just haven't had the time yet!

[spydon]

Any updates on this @btrautmann? :)

[btrautmann]

Any updates on this @btrautmann? :)

Sadly, no... Swamped with a project at the moment, but my team will be doing some OSS-focused work next quarter so I am hoping to squeeze this in.