From 09d49fa3c6519d5846722be9a1bac822ccf6cf59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Agius <17563226+alan-agius4@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:43:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ng-dev): add silent flag to pnpm commands for reduced
 output.

This fixes an issue with the LTS release of the Angular CLI `SyntaxError: Unexpected token '>', "> @angular"... is not valid JSON`.
---
 ng-dev/release/publish/external-commands.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ng-dev/release/publish/external-commands.ts b/ng-dev/release/publish/external-commands.ts
index a3c9c8cca..69e07c24d 100644
--- a/ng-dev/release/publish/external-commands.ts
+++ b/ng-dev/release/publish/external-commands.ts
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ export abstract class ExternalCommands {
     spawnOptions: SpawnOptions = {},
   ): Promise<SpawnResult> {
     if (PnpmVersioning.isUsingPnpm(projectDir)) {
-      return ChildProcess.spawn('pnpm', args, {
+      return ChildProcess.spawn('pnpm', ['-s', ...args], {
         ...spawnOptions,
         cwd: projectDir,
       });