Gulp tasks run on build

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Right now when I use ionic serve it runs the gulp startup tasks in my ionic.project. Are there gulp tasks run on ionic build? I’d love to run a task to replace base urls for my api calls when I build but I don’t see a way to do that. I know I can just call gulp [whatever] then call ionic build but I’d prefer it would be automated.

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you have to use cordova hooks to run some code on build

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Hi,
I had to do exactly what you’re asking for, and after a little research, I came out with something that works:

  1. create a hook file inside /hooks/appropriate_phase/xy_hook_name.js

where:

  • appropriate_phase must be one taken from the following list: https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/edge/guide_appdev_hooks_index.md.html
  • xy_hook_name.js is the hook file name. xy should be numbers. This is just a convention for executing hooks in a specific order. However, since node.js code is asynchronous, you’ll have to handle it if you need sequential/synchronous code execution.

  1. use the following code inside the hook file you did create in step 1:

    #!/usr/bin/env node

    var gulp = require(‘gulp’);
    var path = require(‘path’);

    var rootdir = process.argv[2];
    var gulpfile = path.join(rootdir, ‘gulpfile.js’);

    process.stdout.write(’[MyHook] executing MyHook\n’);

    require(gulpfile);

    // execute specific gulp task
    gulp.start(‘gulp-task-name’);

source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28308360/gulp-hook-before-cordova-build-xxx/28461521#28461521

Be Aware that the gulp.start('gulp-task-name') method appears to be doomed to deprecation/removal. This is not a stable/long term solution. But it does work as today (17th of September 2015) with the following system information:

Cordova CLI: 5.2.0
Gulp version:  CLI version 3.9.0
Gulp local:   Local version 3.9.0
Ionic CLI Version: 1.6.4
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.3.8

Hope that helps! Good Luck!