Use command line arguments for scripts.

What?

I think it would be easier to specify npm run scripts with command line arguments rather, as it would allow greater diversity in scripts that are runnable.

Example:

As an example I will use a simple add method that take command line arguments in its script:

// add.js
// adds two integers received as command line arguments
function add(a, b) {
    return parseInt(a)+parseInt(b);
}
if(!process.argv[2] || !process.argv[3]) {
    console.log('Insufficient number of arguments! Give two numbers please!');
}
else {
    console.log('The sum of', process.argv[2], 'and', process.argv[3], 'is', add(process.argv[2], process.argv[3]));
}

The script becomes:

"js-add": "node add.js"

To run the script:

npm run js-add 2 3

Giving an output of:

The sum of 2 and 3 is 5

Relevance to vue-cli-plugin-cordova?

Using this method:

npm run cordova-serve-ios

can be replace with:

npm run cordova serve ios

This would be ideal in my situation, as I can’t build my ios projects on the command line. So my typical build command would be cordova prepare ios and then I would run the app through xcode. But because your cli commands don’t allow for cordova prepare ios I can’t do this.

This way would also make adding commands like cordova prepare ios easier.

[JohnRSim]

Any progress with adding build.json support 😃

[m0dch3n]

ok, I’ll give build.json a try, and we can mention and explain this in the README for the “advanced” users