Add release option

[mlynch]

We could have a release option that removes unnecessary files and strips everything down.

[somethingnew2-0]

What is unnecessary?

[mlynch]

All of the angular bower includes, the non-minified Ionic code, etc.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Peter C [email protected] wrote:

What is unnecessary?

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[ibes]

Would be nice.
Otherwise there will be much unnecessary stuff in the build app, right?

(I am new to ionic and building apps)

[adamdbradley]

I think that could be dangerous and could build some broken apps. While dev's shouldn't be editing lib files that you'd think could be safely removed, I would imagine it will still happen. And if our tool is removing some stuff automatically, it'll have no way of accurately knowing what it should and shouldn't remove.

[omeid]

@adamdbradley I am not sure if that is an issue, if devs change a lib the changes will be reflected in the minfied files, so removing or keep the original shouldn't have any effect.

[adamdbradley]

I mean the end developer, not Ionic developers. I'm saying that if a developer (not a core ionic developer) decided to hack away at www/lib/ionic/ionic.js, or they added in their own file in that folder, we can't safely say what should be removed or not. We won't know where everyone is putting files that make their app run, so to try to automatically remove unnecessary code I think will randomly cause apps to break and it'll be extremely difficult for end developers to debug once it's built into corodva land.

[fizerkhan]

I think, it is necessary. I build 4 apps without realising that my apk(android) has unnecessary files. Then i removed them manually. The size is reduced from 10MB to 2MB. It is huge difference. It is kind of repeated task for every app that i am going to build.

I hope, lot of developers face the same issue. Ionic build process should handle this automatically.

At least, Inform developers to remove unnecessary files or what can be removed in Publishing your app

[okonon]

this might be related to #168
Don't you think?

[jbavari]

This is being discussed in Issue #270 by another user Luis. We may be incorporating his changes for this there.

[jthoms1]

Thanks for opening the issue. It seems that issue has been resolved. I am going to close this issue but please feel free to reopen another issue if this occurs again.