From ce5267768fb32cba8e8da63460a869f5132b99e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Craigory Coppola <craigorycoppola@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:09:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(core): remove graph creation from postinstall hook

Fixes: #31649
---
 packages/nx/bin/post-install.ts | 31 ++++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/nx/bin/post-install.ts b/packages/nx/bin/post-install.ts
index 9822b4575e861..6517b07024585 100644
--- a/packages/nx/bin/post-install.ts
+++ b/packages/nx/bin/post-install.ts
@@ -11,34 +11,22 @@ import { readNxJson } from '../src/config/nx-json';
 import { logger } from '../src/utils/logger';
 import { setupWorkspaceContext } from '../src/utils/workspace-context';
 
+// The post install is not critical, to avoid any chance that it may hang
+// we will kill this process after 30 seconds.
+const postinstallTimeout = setTimeout(() => {
+  logger.verbose('Nx post-install timed out.');
+  process.exit(0);
+}, 30_000);
+
 (async () => {
   const start = new Date();
   try {
     if (isMainNxPackage() && fileExists(join(workspaceRoot, 'nx.json'))) {
       assertSupportedPlatform();
-      setupWorkspaceContext(workspaceRoot);
-      if (daemonClient.enabled()) {
-        try {
-          await daemonClient.stop();
-        } catch (e) {}
-      }
-      const tasks: Array<Promise<any>> = [
-        buildProjectGraphAndSourceMapsWithoutDaemon(),
-      ];
+
       if (isNxCloudUsed(readNxJson())) {
-        tasks.push(verifyOrUpdateNxCloudClient(getCloudOptions()));
+        await verifyOrUpdateNxCloudClient(getCloudOptions());
       }
-
-      process.env.NX_DAEMON = 'false';
-      await Promise.all(
-        tasks.map((promise) => {
-          return promise.catch((e) => {
-            if (process.env.NX_VERBOSE_LOGGING === 'true') {
-              console.warn(e);
-            }
-          });
-        })
-      );
     }
   } catch (e) {
     logger.verbose(e);
@@ -48,6 +36,7 @@ import { setupWorkspaceContext } from '../src/utils/workspace-context';
       `Nx postinstall steps took ${end.getTime() - start.getTime()}ms`
     );
 
+    clearTimeout(postinstallTimeout);
     process.exit(0);
   }
 })();