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## Current Behavior
We moved target defaults to a graph plugin around the release of Nx 18.
It never fit really perfectly, but because we wanted to apply them
before project.json / package.json configuration results which **_are_**
plugins and do make sense as a plugin it made sense at the time.
## Expected Behavior
We want to expand the behavior of target defaults in the near future to
better handle pattern matching. In doing this, we need more flexibility
in how its applied and that process will need to be aware of which
targets are going to be created by plugins. As such, we are moving it
back to being a post-step in the project configuration construction.
## Related Issue(s)
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Fixes #
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