Peek Nativescript App Updater

This plugin provides an incremental update for the peek-mobile NativeScript app.

This code was forked from https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/nativescript-code-push.

How does it work?

Part of a NativeScript app is XML/HTML, CSS and JavaScript files and any accompanying images.

This npm package provides the ability to update some of the nativescript app from the peek-client server.

What can be CodePushed?

• Anything inside your /app folder.
• Anything inside your /node_modules folder.

What can't (and won't):

• NativeScript platform updates. Example: bumping tns-android from version 2.5.1 to 2.5.2.
• Plugins updates that also require a different version of a native library it depends on.

So as long as you don't change versions of dependencies and tns platforms in your peek_mobile/build-ns/package.json you can push happily. And if you do bump a version of a dependency make sure there are no changed platform libraries.

Testing CodePush packages during development

You may want to play with CodePush before using it in production (smart move!). Perform these steps once you've pushed an update and added the sync command:

• tns run [ios|android] --no-watch --clean
• kill the app after the update is installed
• restart the app

Note that (at least on Android) that --no-watch is really required as otherwise LiveSync will mess with your test!