WebStorm npm scripts: ng build --prod

Question

I'm wanting to run ng build --prod with WebStorm, however it only seems to do ng build and misses the --prod command.

I'm wanting to run this in WebStorm, not in the terminal.

Note: if I add --prod to Arguments, it doesn't work:

/usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js run build --scripts-prepend-node-path=auto --prod

> [email protected] build /Users/robertking/go/src/gitlab.com/cosmoline_client
> ng build

Answer 1

You could add --prod to the build script inside of the package.json. For example:

"scripts": {
  "ng": "ng",
  "start": "ng serve",
  "build": "ng build --prod",
  "test": "ng test",
  "lint": "ng lint",
  "e2e": "ng e2e"
},

Or add an alternate step:

"scripts": {
  "ng": "ng",
  "start": "ng serve",
  "build": "ng build",
  "build:prod": "ng build --prod",
  "test": "ng test",
  "lint": "ng lint",
  "e2e": "ng e2e"
},

If you don't want to do it in the package.json file, since WebStorm isn't running ng directly (it's running via npm), it may not be passing the attributes.
Adding an additional -- may work (e.g. -- --prod).
Or try putting it in quotes (e.g. "--prod").