We are very happy and excited to share with you a new Angular Builder: NGX-AWS-DEPLOY
What is an Angular Builder?
Most of you probably know that the Angular CLI has some CLI commands, sometimes these commands run a complex process, such as linting, building or testing. Internally they make use of the Architect tool to run CLI Builders. With Angular version 8, the CLI Builder API is stable and available to developers who want to customize the Angular CLI by adding or modifying commands.
An Angular Builder is a function that will be executed by using a specific Angular CLI Command. Because you can run ANY command and can make ANY implementation you almost could say: The sky is the limit by adopting Angular Builders
What is an Angular Deployment Builder?
In Angular CLI version 8.3 the Angular team added a new CLI command: ng deployThe existing builder APIs are still used, but the usage has been simplified. It has a very short syntax, because by default it will deploy the default project in the workspace. And the most important point: It is an invitation to the community to standardize deployments under the umbrella of the Angular CLI!
Why I created this Angular Builder
I started the project because I was interested in the Angular Builders API. As I’m loving the way you could do a deployment of an Angular App by using @azure/ng-deploy, I had the idea to do this for Amazon’s S3 storage. In the past, I’ve done some work with Amazon and needed to do several steps to upload an Angular app to AWS S3. After looking at the AWS SDK and some examples on the documentation, I created the builder that we now call: NGX-AWS-DEPLOY
How can we use it?
A builder must be configured for an existing Angular project. But don’t worry! The installation is very simple, because you only have to execute the following command:
ng add @jefiozie/ngx-aws-deploy
By using the command it will install the package for you and ask you a couple of questions to setup the project.
After this, you are ready to deploy your app to AWS S3, just run:
ng deploy
Roadmap?
What does the future bring for this package? I’m not sure yet, I would love to see some feature issues created by the community! Maybe there are use cases I’ve not yet thought of so please submit your issue or feature on the NGX-AWS-DEPLOY Repo
Some of the ideas are:
- Credentials via environment variables #12
- Multi-region upload
- Better progress indicator
- Allow compressing the app and upload it (maybe an edge case)
Thank you
Thank you for reading this post. I hope you will enjoy NGX-AWS-DEPLOY. A big thanks to the Angular CLI team (and everybody who helped) with creating the builders API. I love it! 👍🏻
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