Features of the JavaScript Release Build

The Angular.Net Starter App has many features that can make your application perform faster and make it easier to maintain, and one of the main the features is creating a Release Build.

However, by now, you should realize that the Release build, is only used in Release mode. As an example, before you will published to the server.

Creating a Release build, is one of the features that does many things in one process. Within the Angular.Net Starter App, I am using the pre-commit git hook to automate the following tasks for the Release build. Here is a list of all the things accomplished by creating a Release build using the routines provided by the Angular.Net Starter App.

• Separate the Angular framework code from the application code,
• Bundle the Angular framework with the 3rd party libraries,
• Minify the Angular framework bundle
• Squash the HTML and CSS into the components
• Bundle the application code
• Minify the application bundle
• Enable the production mode
• Create an application manifest
• And bump up the version number

These are all the features that occur automatically, when creating a Release build using a pre-commit Git hook.

It is important to realize that you will not be able to do a commit, to fully see how this works automatically, unless you are using your own Git Repo.

This git hook works for me, on the original Angular.Net Starter App Git repository, because I own that repository. If you are pointing to your own repository, this will work for you. Later, in this course, I will detail how to debug your Git Hooks.