Create .npmrc in dist/electron/UnPackaged even if the project doesn't have one

[yusufkandemir]

We check if .npmrc exists before copying it here:

quasar/app-vite/lib/modes/electron/electron-builder.js

Lines 86 to 104 in c310cb8

	// handle .npmrc separately
	const npmrc = this.ctx.appPaths.resolve.app('.npmrc')
	if (fse.existsSync(npmrc)) {
	let content = this.readFile(npmrc)
	if (content.indexOf('shamefully-hoist') === -1) {
	content += '\n# needed by pnpm\nshamefully-hoist=true'
	}
	// very important, otherwise PNPM creates symlinks which is NOT
	// what we want for an Electron app that should run cross-platform
	if (content.indexOf('node-linker') === -1) {
	content += '\n# pnpm needs this otherwise it creates symlinks\nnode-linker=hoisted'
	}
	this.writeFile(
	join(this.quasarConf.build.distDir, 'UnPackaged/.npmrc'),
	content
	)
	}

If it doesn't exist, for example, when .npmrc is in the root folder in a monorepo, it won't be copied. So, pnpm would use symlinks and the build would fail on Windows, for example.
It won't be respected in monorepos without passing --ignore-workspace to unpackaged install params, but it's needed for that scenario, it's complex.

Solution
So, we should create a .npmrc file with the relevant options in dist/electron/UnPackaged even if the project doesn't have a .npmrc file.

Workaround
Create an empty .npmrc file in the project folder.

[rstoenescu]

Will be available in q/app-vite 2.0.0-beta.22 & q/app-webpack 4.0.0-beta.23

[yusufkandemir]

I was going to handle this one, but thanks 👍 I was going to update the matching to:

# ❌ don't match this, it's just mentioning the option in a comment:
# I am just mentioning node-linker here

# ❌ don't match this, it's commented out:
# node-linker=some-value

# ✅ match this
node-linker=hoisted

But, we even have to override the value as the user might need to use a specific node-linker option in their project. If we don't override it, the user will have a bad time as they will have to give up on something on their project, or it's just not going to work.