environment specific configuration

[morenoh149]

vote for adding support for environment configurations. Serious applications usually have development, staging and production environments to roll out new features.
http://newtriks.com/2013/11/29/environment-specific-configuration-in-angularjs-using-grunt/

[didlich]

+1

[jimthedev]

Can you go into some detail on what kind of things in the project you'd like to see happening in prod vs development environments? I like this but the environments are very specific to the environments of the generating user. At best we could have, say, prod and dev to start, then have instructions for adding/modifying environments if someone wants to add another environment (staging). I'm just trying to judge exactly what use case these environment variables should serve vs the environment hook mentioned in Issue #72. I feel like if this is implemented then there'd need to be some cohesion between cordova hooks and the build tool config.

[diegonetto]

I've given this some thought, and since Ionic uses angular, it might make sense to have an app/scripts/config.js file that gets automatically built by Grunt. This would eliminate the need for the after_prepare hook described in #72 that replaces tokens in files. It would also be a more automated solution.

I am experimenting with grunt-ng-constant for this feature.

[diegonetto]

@morenoh149 @jimthedev I finally ran into the need for this on my latest Ionic project, so I've gone ahead and added this feature to the generator. See the docs here - https://github.com/diegonetto/generator-ionic#environment-specific-configuration

Thanks, and happy coding :)

[chandramuralis]

Hi @diegonetto,
This link https://github.com/diegonetto/generator-ionic#environment-specific-configuration doesn't seems to be active now, could you please point to the latest url?

[jimthedev]

@chandramuralis:

I think it has been moved here:
https://github.com/diegonetto/generator-ionic/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#how-do-i-add-constants

[chandramuralis]

@jimthedev thanks. If possible please update this URL in the gruntfile.

[jimthedev]

@chandramuralis Would you be willing to make this change via a pull request? It is pretty easy, you can just follow these steps.

1. Go to https://github.com/diegonetto/generator-ionic/blob/master/templates/common/Gruntfile.js
2. Click the little pencil icon at the top of the file to bring you to the propose changes screen.
3. Change line 32 to the correct url: https://github.com/diegonetto/generator-ionic/blob/master/docs/FAQ.md#how-do-i-add-constants

This will fork the repo and put in a pull request so that Diego can accept it.

Thanks!

[chandramuralis]

@jimthedev Done and submitted pull request #155
Thanks for the steps, otherwise I would've asked another question.

[jimthedev]

@chandramuralis My pleasure. Thanks for being an open source contributor!