Make build call install

There is a particular design aspect of the .NET Core CLI that I like. By default,

• executing dotnet build implicitly executes dotnet restore and
• executing dotnet publish implicitly executes dotnet build.

I like this API because I think it makes it easier to achieve the behave the user actually wants. I prefer this behavior when I am manually executing commands.

But sometimes it can be helpful to execute a build without a restore or a publish without a build. This is possible by executing

• dotnet build --no-restore and
• dotnet publish --no-build (which implicitly sets --no-restore).

I prefer this behavior when doing automated builds, because when some part fails, I think it is easier to determine what part failed.

What about changing the codedoc CLI to behave similarly?

[loreanvictor]

codedoc serve doesn’t directly call codedoc build, it rather invokes the build() function from @codedoc/core library (alongside rebuild() for iterative rebuilding).

[TysonMN]

I agree with all that.

If you did decide to do this though, codedoc serve would only need to call codedoc build --no-install (or whatever).