`deleteOutputPath` option should delete the contents and not the directory itself

[sarveshraj]

Current Behavior

@nrwl/node:webpack executor deletes the output folder before execution. This is due to deleteOutputPath option being set to true by default.

Any target using @nrwl/workspace:run-commands executor with the cwd option set to the output path and one of the commands set to the target using @nrwl/node:webpack executor fails. The failure is because @nrwl/workspace:run-commands tries to run commands in a deleted folder.

Expected Behavior

I am proposing that the deleteOutputPath option delete the contents of the output folder and not the folder itself.

Steps to Reproduce

Reproduced in nrwl/nx-examples#207
Steps mentioned in the PR itself

Failure Logs

Environment

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   Node : 14.18.1
   OS   : darwin x64
   yarn : 1.22.19
   
   nx : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/angular : Not Found
   @nrwl/cypress : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/detox : Not Found
   @nrwl/devkit : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/eslint-plugin-nx : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/express : Not Found
   @nrwl/jest : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/js : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/linter : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/nest : Not Found
   @nrwl/next : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/node : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/nx-cloud : 14.1.0
   @nrwl/nx-plugin : Not Found
   @nrwl/react : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/react-native : Not Found
   @nrwl/schematics : Not Found
   @nrwl/storybook : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/web : 14.3.1
   @nrwl/workspace : 14.3.1
   typescript : 4.7.3
   ---------------------------------------
   Community plugins:
         @nxext/svelte: 13.0.2

[hevans90]

I just tried setting deleteOutputPath to false (as I wanted this behaviour on one of my builds), and it doesn't seem to even work?

https://nx.dev/packages/node/executors/webpack#deleteoutputpath

the output path is still deleted when building this project :(

[JGitHub01]

I can confirm that setting deleteOutputPath to false does not work. The folder is still deleted. I even tried to overwrite webpack output: clean to false:

const {merge} = require('webpack-merge');

module.exports = (config, _) => {
  return merge(config, {
    // overwrite values heres
    output: {
      clean: false,
    },
  });
}

The output folder still gets deleted.

This behavior also causes a problem with docker volume mount on Linux machine. When the folder is deleted, the mounted volume is lost even if the same folder is recreated. It's not an issue on Mac OS.

[kf6kjg]

Or you get fun failures like > NX EBUSY: resource busy or locked, rmdir '/path/to/outputfolder' - in my case I've got the output folder mounted tmpfs in my Docker dev container.

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