How to switch from phonegap build to ionic cli

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Hey guys and ionic team ( @mhartington ),

we consider to switch from phonegap build to a more useful and faster approach to build our apps.
But about the topic ionic cli i have some questions:
For now we are committing only javascript, html, …files in our git repositories, but with ionic cli we get a wrapper around that files (everything outside the www folder).
How are you working with that to provide a generic approach for that.
Something like we are using the cli for all project -> and we want only the app-itself in our repos like it is, yet.

Another point is, that you need to initialize your ionic apps manually like “ionic add platform …, ionic plugin …”.
I think it will be frustrating for employees (especially ui-guys) if they need to run many cmd-prompts to get the project working on their machine.
Is there anything like -> ionic read the project config.xml and work with it?
Or do we need own gulp/ grunt tasks to simply this?

And the last big point:
Our unit and e2e tests are part of the app. for final builds we have grunt tasks to build a new release -> copy only necessary files and minify + concat them. How could we do this in the ionic cli process.

Thanks and kind regards,

bengtler

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So If I’m understanding correctly, there are three questions here.

  1. Storing files with Git

  2. Handling a project after a fresh git clone

  3. Project structure and build process.

  4. We don’t really take a stance here, other than you should have some sort of version control. It’s too broad of a subject for us to get 100% right, so we let the devs take care of that part

  5. So this was something we’ve handled recently with our save state feature
    https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli#ionic-state
    now you can save project details to your package json and restore a project after a git clone and pick up where you left off.

  6. So a build process is something that we are messing around with now, and still trying to find a good balance that gives new users a easy way to get started and a season dev the tools they need. So no real answer here, but it is something we are looking into.

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