vanilla-cli no longer builds vanilla/vanilla

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edited August 2018 in Dev & Ops

With https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/7612 the vanilla-cli tool is no longer the build tool for core. The build tool now lives directly in the vanilla/vanilla repo.

New Features

  • Hot reloading. Updates to react components no longer require a full rebuild.
  • Build all addons at once. Both the dev and production builds build all enabled addons at the same time.
  • Tied to vanilla so it can't differ for what a particular vanilla version requires.

Migrating

  1. Stop using the vanilla command for building.
  2. Run yarn install in the top level of you vanilla repo. I would recommend adding git hooks according to this doc so that your composer and node modules automatically update when you pull.
  3. Use the following equivalent commands instead

vanilla build

Use yarn build in the root of your vanilla installation.

vanilla build --hot

Use yarn build:dev in the root of your vanilla installation.


Auto-formatting changes

Previously running a build would automatically try to fix your source files. This is still available but has put behind a flag due to IDE conflict issues noticed by myself and @Todd.

To restore the auto-formatting/fixing behaviour add --fix or -f to the end of your build command. This also works with the hot build.

yarn build --fix
# or
yarn build -f

Auto node_module installation

Previously the build tool would automatically install the node_modules of the addons being built. Due to the time this can add to startup it has also been moved behind a flag. To automatically install all addon's node_modules before building pass the --install or -i flag at the end of one of the build commands.

Example

To combine both of the above to replicate the way a hot build worked previously (with auto-install and format) you would do the following:

yarn build:dev --fix --install
# or
yarn build:dev -fi


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