Livereload not working after including custom webpack.config.js

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
1

After I finished updating typescript file, app-script does proceed a build process, but the result remains the same. Every time I make changes, restarting a server is a very annoying job to do.

For example, when I changed a single line of code from console.log('ABC') to console.log('DEF'), console prints out ABC again.

I have reproduced a sample Ionic 3 project to test livereload without using a custom web pack config file, and everything went great.

It seems like I missed out something in my custom config file. What am I doing wrong here?

webpack.config.js

const path = require('path');
const webpackDefault = require('@ionic/app-scripts/config/webpack.config');
const webpackMerge = require('webpack-merge');

const customConfig = {
  dev: {
    resolve: {
      alias: {
        '@myproject-app': path.resolve('src/app'),
        '@myproject-environments': path.resolve('src/environments'),
        '@myproject-pages': path.resolve('src/pages'),
      }
    }
  },
  prod: {
    resolve: {
      alias: {
        '@myproject-app': path.resolve('src/app'),
        '@myproject-environments': path.resolve('src/environments'),
        '@myproject-pages': path.resolve('src/pages'),
      }
    }
  }
};

module.exports = webpackMerge(webpackDefault, customConfig);

cli packages: (/usr/local/lib/node_modules)

@ionic/cli-utils  : 1.19.0
ionic (Ionic CLI) : 3.19.0

global packages:

cordova (Cordova CLI) : 7.1.0

local packages:

@ionic/app-scripts : 3.1.7
Cordova Platforms  : android 6.3.0 browser ios 4.5.4
Ionic Framework    : ionic-angular 3.9.2

System:

ios-deploy : 1.9.2
Node       : v8.9.0
npm        : 5.5.1
OS         : macOS High Sierra
Xcode      : Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b
2

Hello @JeffMinsungKim , have you fixed it? I met the same issue.

3

@dujc Nope… :frowning: still having the problem…

4

It works now.
I just start a new App, and back to my app, then run command ionic serve.

5

@dujc Can you show me your custom config file?

6

Sure, I got it from ionic-environment-variables

var chalk = require("chalk");
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var useDefaultConfig = require('@ionic/app-scripts/config/webpack.config.js');

var env = process.env.IONIC_ENV;

useDefaultConfig.prod.resolve.alias = {
  "@app/env": path.resolve(environmentPath('prod'))
};

useDefaultConfig.dev.resolve.alias = {
  "@app/env": path.resolve(environmentPath('dev'))
};

if (env !== 'prod' && env !== 'dev') {
  // Default to dev config
  useDefaultConfig[env] = useDefaultConfig.dev;
  useDefaultConfig[env].resolve.alias = {
    "@app/env": path.resolve(environmentPath(env))
  };
}

function environmentPath(env) {
  var filePath = './src/environments/environment' + (env === 'prod' ? '' : '.' + env) + '.ts';
  if (!fs.existsSync(filePath)) {
    console.log(chalk.red('\n' + filePath + ' does not exist!'));
  } else {
    return filePath;
  }
}

module.exports = function () {
  return useDefaultConfig;
};
7

Thank you @dujc
As long as I use this code, do I have to change my custom config file every time when I update app-scripts?

8

I think the problem doesn’t cause by the config file, but ionic side.
I didn’t change the config file, the problem was fixed magically after I created a new App.

9

@dujc No, I’m not talking about our latest issue. I’m just curious whether I should update the custom config file when my app-scripts get updated or not.

10

@dujc I followed the exact same thing from the repo, but I get an error

Cannot find a module ‘@app/env’

Do you have any ideas why?

11

Have you added the following to your tsconfig.json in compilerOptions?

"baseUrl": "./src",
"paths": {
  "@app/env": [
    "environments/environment"
  ]
}
13

Yeap. Now I’m getting a new error.
This is my environmnet.dev.ts file and cannot approach firebase. It only reads keys from environment.ts file
export const ENV = {

firebase: {
apiKey: “apikey”,
authDomain: “id.firebaseapp.com”,
databaseURL: “https://id.firebaseio.com”,
projectId: “id”,
storageBucket: “id.appspot.com”,
messagingSenderId: “some number id”
}
};

14

选区_267
It works. Is it cause by the double quotes? I noticed that you are using the Chinese quote in your reply.

15

@dujc I think double quotes are not the one causing the problem.
Ionic recognizes environment.ts file but not environment.dev.ts

16

I solved the problem. I just put firebase:{ } in both environment.ts and environment.dev.ts files