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Lance
Lance

Reputation: 61

How to run npm or angular 2 ng serve command from Bash Script?

I am looking to create an interactive bash script for our development team (never did this before) as our project has various needs and due to future growth on the team I want this to be easy as pi.

Normally for my work on the team I would change directory to the angular folder and run ng serve which kicks off the frontend development server. How do I do that in a bash script?

So far I have this:

#!/bin/bash
echo -e "Hello, "$USER".\nWelcome to the BICE build script!\nVersion 0.1"
echo -e "Which build option do you wish to use?\n1. Frontend (default)\n2. Backend\n3. Database\n4. Production"
echo -n "Enter your choice [1-4] or press [ENTER]:"
read choice
if [choice == 1]; then
  echo "Option 1 selected"
  cd /angular
  #call ng serve

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4154

Answers (1)

n00dl3
n00dl3

Reputation: 21564

/angular seems weird as a working directory but if angular is a subdirectory of the one holding the script a 

cd ./angular
ng serve
cd ..

should work...

Maybe you could look at this question so you can call the script from any working directory.

Also note that you are missing a fi at the end of your if, there sould be spaces after opening and before closing bracket and choice should be referenced with a $ sign:

#!/bin/bash
echo -e "Hello, "$USER".\nWelcome to the BICE build script!\nVersion 0.1"
echo -e "Which build option do you wish to use?\n1. Frontend (default)\n2. Backend\n3. Database\n4. Production"
echo -n "Enter your choice [1-4] or press [ENTER]:"
read choice
if [ $choice == 1 ]; then
  echo "Option 1 selected"
  cd ./angular
  ng serve
  cd ..
fi

Upvotes: 4

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