ui5-builder doesn't clear /dest/ folder

[mauriciolauffer]

Expected Behavior

ui5-builder should clear /dest/ folder before writing new files. It'd avoid unwanted rubbish files in the new version.

Current Behavior

ui5-builder doesn't clear /dest/ folder, if I have old unused files from a previous build, they will remain there after building a new version.

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Run $ ui5 build
2. Delete some files from your /src/ folder
3. Run $ ui5 build
4. Files deleted from /src/ will remain in /dest/

Affected components

• ui5-builder
• ui5-server
• ui5-cli
• ui5-fs
• ui5-project
• ui5-logger

[gregorwolf]

My current solution to this is to create a build script that includes a rm -r dest

[mauriciolauffer]

Yep, I can use grunt, a script or any other dependency to do that...

My point is: cleaning the target folder is part of the build process! It makes no sense to have it as an extra step. If everybody uses something else to do it, why not having it as part of the build tool? Why creating extra scripts and extra dependencies when the build tool should do that?

IMO, this's a design flaw as my build folder might end up with garbage from older builds...

[RandomByte]

UI5 CLI v1.9.0 adds the --clean-dest parameter. Use it like this: ui5 build --clean-dest.

Thanks @mauriciolauffer for implementing this new feature!