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ionic-build-info

v0.0.8

Published

adds build info to an Ionic project's assets folder

Downloads

20

Readme

Ionic Build Info

While building a desktop web application using the Ionic Framework, I realized that for support purposes I wanted the ability to display the app's build number (or even build date) in the application somewhere. I started looking for a solution and didn't find one, so I built this module.

Installation

Install the module by opening a terminal window and executing the following command:

npm install --save-dev ionic-build-info

Operation

When you execute the module, it reads the local Ionic project's package.json file, and, using the file's version property and the current date/time, creates a new file in the project at src/app/buildinfo.ts containing the following information:

export const buildInfo = {
  buildVersion: "0.0.4",
  buildDate: 1611670976033
}

To import the generated module in a page script, use the following:

import { buildInfo } from '../buildinfo';

When you import this file into your Ionic project, the app has access to the project's build details. Here's an example of how to use the generated module in your app, the following code is from a simple page that outputs the build information to the browser's console:

export class HomePage {

  appBuildNumber: string = '';
  appBuildDate: Date;

  constructor() {
    this.appBuildNumber = buildInfo.buildVersion;
    this.appBuildDate = new Date(buildInfo.buildDate);

    console.log(`Build Number: ${this.appBuildNumber}`);
    console.log(`Build Date: ${this.appBuildDate}`);
  }
 
}

To use the values in a page's content, use something like the following:

<p>Build: {{this.appBuildNumber}} [{{this.appBuildDate}}]</p>

Usage

Open the project's package.json file and add this process to the existing build script entry, changing:

"build": "ng build ",

to:

"build": "npm version patch && ionic-build-info && ng build ",

The npm version patch part of the build step increments the patch version in the package.json file before calling ionic-build-info.

With this in place, when you execute ionic build to build a production version of the app, npm will update the version number in the project's package.json file, build an updated version of the buildinfo.js file, then generate the production build of the app.


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