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Why is dist directory in source control?

See original GitHub issue

Generally, build artifacts should not be checked in to source control. This includes the dist directory in your repo. Out of curiosity, why did you decide to check this in? You can use the “releases” feature of Github to upload .zip files for people that don’t want to use the npm package.

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:10 (2 by maintainers)

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Daniel15commented, Oct 24, 2015

Ahh. That sucks 😦

Bower is silly for requiring that. It would be nice to drop dist and Bower one day.

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Daniel15commented, Apr 28, 2016

the fact that at moment there is no dist folder is a big problem

You don’t need to have dist checked in to your repo to handle Bower. You could either have a separate repo (eg. https://github.com/daniel15/babel-standalone-bower), or use npmcdn (which can load modules from NPM and package them so they work with Bower): https://npmcdn.com/

You can use NPM with ASP.NET Core projects with no issues. You can use a module bundler (such as Webpack or Browserify) and just make sure the resulting bundle is output to the wwwroot directory.

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