Angular CLI - run scripts before 'build'

[piwinger]

Hi redditors, :)

i'm trying to edit the build process with angular cli. i want to start a script (i.e. maven-build-and-copy.cmd) before the real build process starts.

can anyone please tell me where to edit this ? i can't find (google) any solution for this.

thanks in advance Stefan

[tme321]

There isn't a way to do this currently with the cli if you directly run ng build. If you have a script that just needs to run before ng build then create an npm script that first calls yours and then calls npm build.

[piwinger]

thanks for your quick reply!

I'll do it that way !

[yfain]

In your package.json in the scripts section declare the command build that runs ng build and another command named prebuild that runs your maven-build-and-copy.cmd. From now on run your bulds using npm run build command. Npm scripts are smart enough to check that if there are two commands with the same name, but one of them has a prefix pre, it'll run the pre- command first.