feat: build flag to append generated suffix to bundles #5814
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What is the current behavior?
See discussion: https://discord.com/channels/603595811204366337/1276116878154268763
It seems to be the case that sometimes when an iOS app is updating it does not overwrite the old js files with the new versions, resulting in app crashes etc.
What is the new behaviour?
This adds a new flag
--unique-bundle
which instructs the cli to generate an id, which is then passed to webpack to be appended as a suffix to generated bundle names.The cli then uses this id to set the main entry in the package.json in the resulting app.
Note: In the discussion linked to above the files are generated with hashes, but then it becomes complicated to find the correct name of the main entry and I believe more brittle. An option would be to use something like the
webpack-manifest-plugin
to find the hashed value, or just assume a pattern but this seems a more straightforward solution.There is a corresponding
@nativescript/webpack
PR #10614