Is it ok to write custom tasks or not? They don't seem to pass validation

[silvenon]

There are some examples of configuring custom tasks in Lefthook (non-hooks), but seem to be prohibited by lefthook validate. So is there an official stance on whether it's ok to configure them?

I'm leaning towards "no" because Lefthook is currently making no distinction and placing custom tasks in .git/hooks as well. Maybe considering that the validate command knows what the hooks are, that can be used to pass only git hooks into .git/hooks?

But most heavy convoluted tasks used to be build tasks, and those are being offloaded to more capable buid tools like Vite, so maybe Lefthook can make a stance to disallow custom tasks? Although for my npm validate script I'm doing lefthook run pre-push --force. Maybe disallowing custom tasks would be too prohibitive in the case I'm running different checks in pre-push and validate, and in both I want parallelization.

[mrexox]

Hey! This is not prohibited, it's just an uncommon way of using lefthook. Basically lefthook is supposed to be used with git hooks, that's why lefthook validate checks only for existing Git hooks and complains on custom hooks. But this must not confuse you if you want to go beyond the common scope :)

[silvenon]

Thanks for your answer. I created a feature request based on this, I should've probably skipped this Q&A part 😄 but it's good to know that Lefthook maintainer's stance of custom hooks aligns with mine, I thought there was a chance that they were deprecated.

For now it's easy for me to avoid them when I want to automate validation.