angular-cli: Extensibility

[fkolar]

This is more like feature and maybe this is already in the list.
Even all works great, I would like to extends angular-cli and have some hooks available, to I can plug in my custom-command that can be called everytime I spin a build, or anything while on ng serve I change something and the build refreshes.

ideally the command would be outside of node_modules/

Thanks,
-Fk

[grizzm0]

You can create scripts in package.json that chains multiple commands together. And live-reload on ng serve is already a thing...

[fkolar]

Right lets say I can use package.json from where I will execute a command, but does not help with live-reload - when running ng serve

[filipesilva]

We plan to support addons in the future, yes. It's a post 1.0 concern at the moment.

[tuvokki]

As I understand the cli is based on ember-cli, which supports the install action for installing addons:

Ember CLI will detect the presence of an addon by inspecting each of your applications dependencies and search their package.json files for the presence of ember-addon in the keywords section
See DEVELOPING ADDONS AND BLUEPRINTS

Is it possible to enable this?

[filipesilva]

Just wanted to give an update: 1.0 is currently released, and we are looking at the design of an addon system for future major versions.

[fkolar]

This is good news!! Is this going to be under wiki to look at ?

[fkolar]

Are there any news on this ?

[filipesilva]

We just added customizable blueprints (#7090, docs are still being created) so that bit is customizable, but there isn't any build step customization yet.

[fkolar]

I see. I will just have to wait for this addons support that maybe allows me to extends or customize build steps. Any timeline for this?

But thanks for the prompt reply.

[filipesilva]

No time to share yet, no. But will try to share it as soon as we can.