What is a dist build target folder in Yeoman / Grunt / Angular?

Question

In configuration readmes for generators such as these I frequently see options such as --dist-path='dist' customize build target folder, relative to cwd, default is dist

Also, in my own grunt folder I see:

  var appConfig = {
    app: require('./bower.json').appPath || 'app',
    dist: '../server/dist'
  };

What is that? It looks like it defaulted to my server directory but I have no idea what it is for. Can someone please explain the purpose of dist to me?

Answer 1

The dist folder contains the minified/uglified/concatenated/etc version of your code. Yeoman generators usually run grunt/gulp tasks to prepare your application for production use by running several tasks and outputting the results in the for dist folder.

Dist stands for distribution.

More info here.