Add --silent option to ng build, test and lint

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
cli, tooling

Research direction

Start at the ng build, ng test, and ng lint command entry points and inspect how their output is currently emitted. Define done as a --silent option supported by all three commands that suppresses output on success while retaining errors, with command coverage confirming the behavior.

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Description

area: @angular-devkit/build-angular feature feature: insufficient votes

🚀 Feature request

Add a --silent option to build, test and lint so that it only outputs errors.

Command (mark with an x)
  • new
  • build
  • serve
  • test
  • e2e
  • generate
  • add
  • update
  • lint
  • extract-i18n
  • run
  • config
  • help
  • version
  • doc
Description

So the usecase for us is that we have a pre-push GIT hook that runs lint, test and build before allowing the push to go through. Our issue is that we have a rather large application and the output for test and build are quite massive. An ideal situation would be if neither of the commands output anything if they pass and only show the errors if they don't.
Another usecase where this could be useful is for PR-builds to deliver a small but relevant report.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add a --silent option that only output any potential error the command might come across.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Optionally: Add a --loglevel option so you could filter away depending on the level of your choice.

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