I've added more comments to CB-4609 about this. tl;dr use a post-prepare hook for this kind of custom behavior.
Braden On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Jonathan Bond-Caron <jbo...@gdesolutions.com > wrote: > On Wed Nov 6 01:54 AM, Darryl Pogue wrote: > > On 5 November 2013 13:37, Braden Shepherdson <bra...@chromium.org> > > wrote: > > > > > > Why is any development here happening outside of Cordova? Most apps > > > are going to depend on Cordova APIs too deeply to get all that far > > > with the early steps in your outline. > > > > > > Braden > > > > My approach when developing multi-platform apps is to think of the core > > cordova.js as a polyfill manager, and the plugins as polyfills for > features that > > might not exist yet. > > > > To that end, I took the firefoxos platform of cordova.js from 3.1.0 and > very > > slightly modified it and saved it as a "browser" platform[1]. I put the > resulting > > cordova.js in my www folder so I can run it in the browser without any > cordova > > prepare commands, and when I do make a build for a device, it gets > overwritten > > by the platform-specific JS file. > > > > Same approach :) There's 3 issues for that type of workflow inside > Cordova: > > 1) No unified cordova.js for the browser > > Not sure if it makes more sense as a separate 'platform', or just a file > built from cordova-js > See: http://goo.gl/fvNkmh > > 2) Version control is tricky > > If you use 'codova create', it's a bit unclear what part of the > application should be under version control, only the www/ folder? > If you target 4 platforms, you have 4 versions of the app in the > platforms/ folder. > > So right now, I prefer to consider the application outside of Cordova. > > 3) App layout > > This is probably more specific to my case, both cli and plugman expect the > layout of an app to be: > www/cordova.js > www/cordova_plugins.js > www/plugins > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4609 > > Would prefer that to be configurable as for example: > www/resources/js/cordova.js > www/resources/js/cordova_plugins.js > www/resources/js/plugins > > Main reason is I have additional build tools (minification etc...) that > expect this layout. > >
