Extend dev-server to be usable without webpack target

[radulle]

• I'd be willing to implement this feature (contributing guide)

Description

@nrwl/web:dev-server's devServerExecutor is tightly coupled to @nrwl/web:webpack's options in project.json which means that devServerExecutor can not be used programmatically. I propose adding overrideTargetOptions (WebWebpackExecutorOptions) option.

Motivation

This would allow for devServerExecutor to be called with independent set of webpack executor's options. This is needed for those that use build target with custom executor that does not use options which are required for dev-server.

Suggested Implementation

Add overrideTargetOptions option in interface and schema of dev-server. Update getBuildOptions that if overrideTargetOptions is provided target's options are ignored.

This change would not affect current behaviour but would add more flexibility to dev-server executor.

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[FrozenPandaz]

We've changed the way our webpack targets work to execute the webpack config directly. This means that the webpack config also contains all the actual information needed by both build and serve.

Does this fix this issue? In what cases are you trying to invoke the devServerTargetExecutor programmatically?