Sharing ionic project on git

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Hi Ionic team,

Thanks for building this awesome product!

Me and my friend were having some difficulties in sharing the ionic project code over git. Can anyone please suggest Which files/directories to ignore and which to include in git?.

Also, which commands I need to run to install all the required dependencies on the machine on which I am cloning the project through git?

Thanks in advance!

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Any help in this matter will be appreciated!

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Hello, jayant did you find a solution? I got errors too because some files won’t be tracked by git add * in the root folder of the app. These files are missing when we clone the app afterwards.

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Hi,

Here is my .gitignore :

app/bower_components/
.sass-cache/
.tmp/
coverage/
hooks/
merges/
node_modules/
platforms/
plugins/
www/
.DS_Store
npm-debug.log

*~

And here is my process to get started with commited code :

  • go to project root folder
  • npm install to install all grunt dependencies
  • bower install to install all bower dependencies
  • grunt serve to test on your computer

Your app is now running to your computer. To run it to your android device :

  • mkdir platforms plugins www create folders for cordova
  • cordova platform add android add android platform to the project
  • cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.device ... add interesting plugins
  • grunt build && cordova run android to run app on your phone

Hope it helps !

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Why we need to add hooks/ in .gitignore. Can’t we add scripts here to add platform class or scripts to automatically install plugins from package.json into hooks or is it taken care by ionic cli itself.

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Yeah I would like to know if anyone has something to do this for a fresh clone?

I had to write a script and include it in the project so new developers can get up and running

#!/usr/bin/env node
const fs = require('fs');
const exec = require('child_process').exec;

fs.readFile('package.json', function (err, data) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(data);

  const packageJson = JSON.parse(data);
  const cordovaPlatforms = packageJson.cordovaPlatforms;
  const cordovaPlugins = packageJson.cordovaPlugins;

  console.log('installing platforms');
  cordovaPlatforms.forEach(function (platform) {
    console.log('adding platform ' + platform);

    const installCmd = 'ionic platform add ' + platform;
    exec(installCmd, function (err, stdout, stderr) {
      console.log(stdout);
      console.log(stderr);
    });
  });

  console.log('installing plugins');
  cordovaPlugins.forEach(function (plugin) {
    var installCmd;
    if (typeof plugin == 'string') {
      installCmd = 'ionic plugin add ' + plugin;
    } else {
      installCmd = 'ionic plugin add ' + plugin.locator;
    }

    console.log(installCmd);

    exec(installCmd, function (err, stdout, stderr) {
      if (err) {
        console.log(stderr);
        throw err;
      }

      console.log(stdout);
      console.log(stderr);
    });
  });
});

It would be better if I wrap the platform installs with a promise first then do the plugin installs, but I didn’t want to add a new dependency to the script. It would also be better if I did something like check if the platform and plugins dirs exist already before running the add command.