feat(core): ability to save task graph to a file when running --graph

[AgentEnder]

Current Behavior

Saving the graph to a file is only supported for nx graph This looks like: nx graph --file output.json

Expected Behavior

You can also save the task graph when running nx ... --graph. The PR currently implements this like:
nx affected --target build --graph output.json

Deprecations

• criticalPath and affected fields within json graph outputs are now deprecated

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[FrozenPandaz]

followup: Why is this here?

[FrozenPandaz]

remove for now....

cc @philipjfulcher how do you think someone should be able to run nx graph so that it outputs to the terminal?

We are making nx graph --file stdout print to the terminal... but it looks kind of weird.. so our preliminary thought was nx graph --out stdout looks better.. but we don't have to make this identical to file. This could just be like --stdout or --print

[FrozenPandaz]

We need to alter this output to include tasks and omit affectedProjects and criticalPath.

Option 1:
tasks is the same as what print-affected has currently which is tasks: Task[]

Option 2:
tasks is the task graph so we have taskGraph: { roots: string[], tasks: Record<string, Task>, dependencies: Record<string, string[]> }

[AgentEnder]

• Updated with option 2 🎉

There is a caveat. print-affected included task hashes, but they were sometimes not matching with the task hash as compared against the cache... See: #16153

Should we try to get accurate hashes this time, or just be ok with no hash?

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