Add a gulp build:before task

[kelvindart]

At the moment, the following build tasks are defined:

gulp.task('serve:before', ['watch']);
gulp.task('emulate:before', ['build']);
gulp.task('deploy:before', ['build']);

This is great if you use ionic serve, ionic emulate or ionic deploy respectively. However, I find myself working with the IDEs, so tend to use ionic build often and as a result, my HTML components are not built.

If I weren't too familiar with Ionic 2, it could have caused a headache trying to debug the reason why :).

May I suggest adding gulp.task('build:before', ['build']); to the default before hooks, so ionic build triggers the HTML components be built?

[dylanvdmerwe]

Similar issue to this? ionic-team/ionic-gulp-tasks#2

[kelvindart]

Good spot - exactly that :)

[tlancina]

Should be updated in the starters, thanks!

[magician03]

Hi,

This is not working in Ionic v3. How to enable it ?? Earlier it used to work in Ionic v2.

[imhoffd]

@magician03 -> #1989

Not a feature yet, unfortunately.