Allow to serve dist folder, e.g. ui5 serve --dist

Expected Behavior

I would like to be able to serve the dist resources via the ui5 serve command, e.g. via a dedicated command line options like --dist.

Current Behavior

As of today, the best workaround is to create a separate ui5.yaml file (e.g. ui5-dist.yaml) which shifts the project resources configuration for webapp to the dist folder:

specVersion: ‘1.0’
metadata:
 name: openui5-sample-app
type: application
resources:
 configuration:
   paths:
     webapp: dist

Now the project can be served from the dist folder via ui5 serve --config ui5-dist.yaml.

[petermuessig]

Thanks @codeworrior , I remember again - but I also wanted to document this simple idea here of having just two configuration files and use one for serve from dist.

[nhebling]

Has this been added in the meantime. I’m exactly looking for that as I’m trying to include a third-party npm module + having the sources of my UI5-library project in TypeScript. Currently it’s pretty complicated to setup and understand as there are various tools, shims, tasks etc. required for “just” including an npm-library and fixing the paths. Now it seems that in the “dist” folder everything looks pretty good and I just want to take that output and run ui5 serve. If I do it now ui5-serve will run an intermediate build result where the reference to the npm-library still does not work (always looks for it on “https://ui5.sap.com/resources/” (don’t know why this is the default for anything non- “sap/” and not a local lookup)…so it would require possibly another task, tool, shim or whatever to fix that intermediate build results to be able to run via ui5-server. Would be nice if there would be a small parameter to just run “ui5 serve” from the “dist” folder. Easy and understandable.