Build Options for App Deployment
Build options are a part of configure profile settings. You can choose from the following build options to deploy your app. There are two build options you can choose from.
- Angular Build
- WaveMaker Build (deprecated)
Angular Build
With WM 10.0, the projects will contain generated Angular 7 code. Thus, you can choose the Angular build option to deploy your project. The Angular build further supports the following two build modes.
- Development mode
- Production mode
Development
This mode will have a minimum build time for the compilation, but the optimization mode does not include in this build. Thus, the execution load depends on the client/browser, which makes the application heavier at the runtime.
Production
This mode takes longer than the Development mode as the compilation of templates, optimization mode, i.e., minification, uglification, dead code elimination/tree shaking, etc. handles during the build time. So the runtime performance will be superlatively better in this mode.
Choosing Angular Build Option
Angular Build supports the Angular-generated project, and it offers several benefits over the classic WaveMaker Build. The Angular build option provides:
- Angular 7 CLI compatible build process.
- Reduced size of build output files.
- Optimized output with Dead Code Elimination/Tree shaking, Uglification, and minification.
- Reduction in Application & Page Load times as parsing & execution times are reduced.
Setting Build Option
To access the build options, click the Settings icon and select the Config Profile option from the drop-down. See the image below.
The Config Profiles opens the Profile Configuration window. Go to the Build Options tab, as shown in the image below:
The Build Options are Read-Only for ‘Development’ build profile of the WaveMaker build. For other profiles such as ‘Deployment’ or the custom ones, you can choose from the above-specified modes.
WaveMaker Build (deprecated)
This build option follows the classic WaveMaker build process which was used in the earlier versions of WaveMaker; for example, WM 9.4. WaveMaker build follows Maven build process. For more information, see WaveMaker profiles
See Also
One-Click Deployment
Building a War file from a WaveMaker Project