cordova-plugin-exclude-files

A cordova plugin that allows to exclude files from the build.

This plugin does not work in PhoneGap Build since they don't support cordova hooks.

Installation

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-exclude-files

Usage

Configure which files to exclude from the build, by adding any number of <exclude-files> elements to your config.xml:

<exclude-files pattern="**/*.scss" />

<platform name="android">
    <exclude-files pattern="ios-only" />
</platform>

Patterns are globs that are resolved relative to the www directory. Platform specific excludes are appended to the global excludes.

How it works

Files that match the given patterns will be removed by an after_prepare hook. This seems to be the only safe method of doing this at the moment of writing.

This means that cordova will first copy everything from www to the platform directories and then the files matched by this plugin will be deleted from there. Consequently, you cannot speed up cordova prepare by excluding files using this plugin.

Compatibility

Tested with cordova versions 6.5 through 8. Requires node ≥ 6. For node 4 support use cordova-plugin-exclude-files@^0.2.4.

License

cordova-plugin-exclude-files is licensed under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2017–2018 Raphael von der Grün