@holisticon/nativescript-buildhelper

NativeScript Build Helper

Basic NPM package for helping on automate releasing of NativeScript Apps

** CURRENTLY A PRE-RELEASE **

Requirements

• Node 4+
• NativeScript 2.5+
• Git versioning system
• fastlane (if automatic upload is need)

Installation

npm install @holisticon/nativescript-buildhelper --save-dev

Or if you want to use the development version (nightly build), which maybe not stable!:

npm install @holisticon/nativescript-buildhelper@next --save-dev

Usage

For those who haven't deployed any apps in v2.4 of NativeScript; one of the new features that is turned on by default is SnapShots. Now most the time this is a AWESOME thing, however occasionally this can cause issues. For example I have one app of mine that this crashes at startup when using SnapShots.

Now the docs do list how to disable snapshots; but it is a lot easier for me to find the notes on my own site than trying to figure out which doc has the info.

The environmental variable you need to adjust is: TNS_ANDROID_SNAPSHOT

0 = Force Snapshots off always 1 = Force snapshots on (including in debug mode) Unset = Snapshots only in Release mode

Advanced Usage

Debugging

If you need to debug the tests use the node-inspector:

npm run debug
node-inspector --web-port=8282

You can then open chrome at http://127.0.0.1:8282/?port=5858 for debugging.

If you want to have verbose logging add NODE_DEBUG=holisticon_tns:

NODE_DEBUG=holisticon_tns node tns-buldnumbering

Changelog

0.2.0 (2017-11-10)

Bug Fixes

• buildnumber: Corrected path issues on build numbering (f81b0ac)
• runtime-error: Resolve TypeError: require(...) is not a function (936387e)

Features

• buildnumber: Adding buildnumbering script (a3339fc)
• buildnumbering: Setting CFBundleShortVersionString to app version in Info.plist (ae0df83)
• buildnumbering: Support for iOS added (be14ba8)
• debugging: Enabling debug and verbose logging (482ca5a)
• release-build: Adding build app helper with debug option (still WIP!) (d3c0f41)