Ionic / bower / cordova - ignore files for build
According to Cordova workflow you can add a hook script that removes unnecessary files. A detailed example of a cleanup script can be found here: https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2015/01/hooks-apache-cordova-mobile-applications/
But to give a quick step by step summary:
Add to the after_prepare hook folder (/hooks/after_prepare) a script (01_junk_cleanup.js - 01 to be run first, the rest whatever you want) and in the file specify the files and folders you want to delete. For example, here is how you can delete a test folder and relevant files just change to you lib directory and to the files there. Note that this example is a bit different from the example in the link i gave earlier so you might want to take a look there as well.
01_junk_cleanup.js:
#!/usr/bin/env node
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var foldersToProcess = [
"js",
"css"
];
var foldersToDelete = [
"test"
];
var filesToDelete = [
"karmaOnBrowser.conf.js",
"karmaOnEmulators.conf.js",
"SpecRunner.html"
];
var iosPlatformsDir = "platforms/ios/www/";
var androidPlatformsDir = "platforms/android/assets/www/";
filesToDelete.forEach(function(file) {
var filePathIOS = iosPlatformsDir + file;
var filePathAndroid = androidPlatformsDir + file;
if(fs.existsSync(filePathIOS)){
fs.unlinkSync(filePathIOS);
};
if(fs.existsSync(filePathAndroid)){
fs.unlinkSync(filePathAndroid);
};
});
foldersToProcess.forEach(function(folder) {
processFiles(iosPlatformsDir + folder);
processFiles(androidPlatformsDir + folder);
});
foldersToDelete.forEach(function(folder) {
deleteFolderRecursive(iosPlatformsDir + folder);
deleteFolderRecursive(androidPlatformsDir + folder);
});
function deleteFolderRecursive(path){
if( fs.existsSync(path) ) {
fs.readdirSync(path).forEach(function(file,index){
var curPath = path + "/" + file;
if(fs.lstatSync(curPath).isDirectory()) { // recurse
deleteFolderRecursive(curPath);
} else { // delete file
fs.unlinkSync(curPath);
}
});
fs.rmdirSync(path);
}
}
function processFiles(dir) {
fs.readdir(dir, function(err, list) {
if(err) {
console.log('processFiles err: ' + err);
return;
}
list.forEach(function(file) {
file = dir + '/' + file;
fs.stat(file, function(err, stat) {
if(!stat.isDirectory()) {
switch(path.basename(file)) {
case ".DS_Store":
fs.unlink(file, function(error) {
console.log("Removed file " + file);
});
break;
case "Thumbs.db":
fs.unlink(file, function(error) {
console.log("Removed file " + file);
});
break;
default:
console.log("Skipping file " + file);
break;
}
}
});
});
});
}
Aside to above, A bit more obvious but I feel worth mentioning anyhow, After having the www/lib bloat as well I always try to keep the folder lean and add only libraries required for deployment, the other dev. dependencies such as jasmine I either hold in the 'node_modules' folder or 'bower_components' as I only install today through them.
Hope this helps, Good luck
With Bower you need to use npm preen to remove unnecessary files
See my example using Gulp with Ionic Framework: https://github.com/jdnichollsc/Ionic-Starter-Template
Basically you can set your bower.json file to indicate the path which files you need, for example:
"preen": {
//... More libraries
"ionic-datepicker": [
"dist/*.js" //You only need these files
//Other files and folders will be deleted to reduce the size of your app
],
"ion-floating-menu": [
"dist/*" //Keep all the files (.html, .css, .js, etc) of the directory.
]
}
Regards, Nicholls
I think the best approach would be to do this:
- Move the bower_components folder and your index.html file to the project root, outside the /www folder
- Install gulp and gulp-usemin
- Wrap all of the .js files and .css files from bower components in usemin
<build:js>
and<build:css>
sections - Configure a task in your gulpfile to concatenate all those files into a lib.js and a lib.css file. Make sure that those two files as well as the rewritten index.html are output to the /www folder
- Execute the gulp task before your next build, and each time you add a new bower component.
This will keep your /www folder tidy and only containing the files you need in your cordova build.