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Mr.Smithyyy
Mr.Smithyyy

Reputation: 1329

Bundling webpack alongside dotnet run

I have started a .NET Core Web Api application and I'm using webpack to bundle my javascript and use ES6 features.

However, everytime I make a change and want to see it live I have to run two commands in the VS Code terminal:

  1. webpack
  2. dotnet run

Is there a way to consolidate these two commands into just dotnet run so that the webpack would get bundled automatically?

As a bonus before I put my Javascript into my web api application, I was able to use the webpack-dev-server and it would automatically run the webpack command whenever I made changes so I'm curious if there's any way to bundle this functionality into the above as well.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 820

Answers (1)

Temi Lajumoke
Temi Lajumoke

Reputation: 2400

you can execute any scripts as your project build or before publishing by including the script in your .csproj file. For example.

<Target Name="PrepublishScript" BeforeTargets="Publish">
    <Exec Command="npm install" />
</Target>

This would install npm packages in your app before publishing.

or in your case

<Target Name="NpmCommands" AfterTargets="Build">
        <Exec Command="webpack" />
 </Target>

to bundle your files after project build.

Upvotes: 2

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