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What are these targets in node for?

I have the following in my package json that is responsible for building and running the Angular 2 application. May I know the meaning of each of the flags in the targets ? This for deploying an Angular 2 application in IBM Bluemix

"build": "rimraf dist && webpack --progress --profile --bail",
"start": "tsc && concurrently \"tsc -w\" \"lite-server\" "
Solution

  • The answer to your questions are located in the documentation for each of the node js libraries:

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/concurrently

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/tsc

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/webpack

    https://www.npmjs.com/package/lite-server

    The build script is deleting the dist folder, then building your app with webpack.

    The start script is compiling your typescript and then running the typescript compiler in watch mode and then starting lite-server concurrently.