Why not published to NPM?

[phal0r]

Hi @joshdholtz ,

thanks for this nice project. May I ask why you did not publish it to npm?

[joshdholtz]

@phal0r Hey! This was more or less just something I did for myself as a proof of concept and a Hack & Tell (fun stressfree hackathon) one day. I was hoping that something like this would be built into Ionic one day so that I didn't have another thing to support myself 😉

[phal0r]

I understand. So what is the point, that keeps you from making it more "official" (aka publishing it :P )
a) You don't have the time to maintain it
b) This is not well tested/finished

I have to 2 projects, where I want to have BETA/TEST/PROD versions without code duplication. Some configuration can be handled differently, but everything that is part of the cordova build system, would highly benefit from a tool like this. I feel that this could be build into the cordova lifecycle, so usage would be straightforward.

[joshdholtz]

@phal0r I love the questions here ❤️ I originally never published it to npm because its installable with npm install --save-dev https://github.com/joshdholtz/ionic-configurator.git and i was hoping something like this would get integrated into Ionic/Cordova natively but...

I'm just going to publish it today because yolo ✊ Stay tuned 😉

[phal0r]

With Ionic 4 they include some support for different environments, so expecting to get a feature like this will probably take years, if it will be implemented at all.

Very cool! I am willing to help to set up some basic stuff... CI, Testing, Code Climate and so on. I can give feedback on how well it aligns with my projects.

I also promise to be the first to npm install it, right after you have published it :D

[phal0r]

Another question: Does it make sense to publish it as cordova-configurator or cordova-multiapp-configurator (just thinking out loud)? Everything related to config.xml belongs to the cordova project. Ionic just builds upon it. It could be mentioned in the README, that it also supports Ionic and people don't get confused.

[joshdholtz]

I do like the idea of renaming it away from Ionic since it is 100% Cordova 🧐 I think I will do that and publish it so you can be the first downloader 🙌