From b614db996ba9485f6cb86cf41f2f6e6e17c0f804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Imhoff <dwieeb@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:57:59 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix(build): never delete output path

fixes https://github.com/ionic-team/angular-toolkit/issues/51
fixes https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/issues/3823
---
 builders/cordova-build/index.ts | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/builders/cordova-build/index.ts b/builders/cordova-build/index.ts
index 515b96e..c7f8516 100644
--- a/builders/cordova-build/index.ts
+++ b/builders/cordova-build/index.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ export class CordovaBuildBuilder implements Builder<CordovaBuildBuilderSchema> {
     // requirement of Cordova.
     browserOptions.outputPath = join(cordovaBasePath, normalize('www'));
 
+    // Cordova CLI will error if `www` is missing. The Angular CLI deletes it
+    // by default. Let's keep it around.
+    browserOptions.deleteOutputPath = false;
+
     if (options.cordovaAssets) {
       const platformWWWPath = join(cordovaBasePath, normalize(`platforms/${options.platform}/platform_www`));