NativeScript Build Helper

This NPM package helps automate the release of NativeScript applications

** CURRENTLY A PRE-RELEASE **

Requirements

• Node 4+
• NativeScript 2.5+
• Git version control
• fastlane (if automatic upload is need)

Installation

npm install @toolisticon/nativescript-buildhelper --save-dev

Or if you want to use the development version (nightly build), which maybe not stable!:

npm install @toolisticon/nativescript-buildhelper@next --save-dev

Usage

For those who haven't deployed any apps in v2.4 of NativeScript; one of the new features that is turned on by default is SnapShots. Now most the time this is a AWESOME thing, however occasionally this can cause issues. For example I have one app of mine that this crashes at startup when using SnapShots.

Now the docs do list how to disable snapshots; but it is a lot easier for me to find the notes on my own site than trying to figure out which doc has the info.

The environmental variable you need to adjust is: TNS_ANDROID_SNAPSHOT

0 = Force Snapshots off always 1 = Force snapshots on (including in debug mode) Unset = Snapshots only in Release mode

Build Numbering

Use this command to append the build number to CFBundleVersion on iOS and to versionCode on Android:

tns-buildnumbering 42

Advanced Usage

Debugging

If you need to debug the tests use the node-inspector:

npm run debug
node-inspector --web-port=8282

You can then open chrome at http://127.0.0.1:8282/?port=5858 for debugging.

If you want to have verbose logging add NODE_DEBUG=tns_buildhelper_debug:

NODE_DEBUG=tns_buildhelper_debug node tns-buldnumbering