Using only one command to build both a minified and a development .js file
While working on the release of your components, you may need a reliable process to issue your built files. A common operation is to release two versions of a library/component: one for development purposes and one to be consumed in production code, usually minified. In this recipe, you will tweak the official template to release both a minified and a development JavaScript file at the same time.
Getting ready
This recipe makes sense if you are already building and distributing your own components. If you want to learn more, I suggest you refer to the Bundling your component with Webpack recipe.
How to do it…
We'll start with a project with the official Webpack template. You can use your own, or you can spin up a new project with vue init webpack
and install the dependencies with npm isntall
.
Go inside the build
directory. When you launch the npm run build
command, you are effectively launching the build.js
file in this...