Grunt: add an update-external-app task

Builds the modules in bin/dist/modules and updates an app's
node_modules/tns-core-modules dir.

grunt update-external-app --path=/some/path/myapp1

gruntfile.js

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
     if (grunt.cli.tasks.indexOf("testsapp") >= 0 || grunt.cli.tasks.indexOf("buildTestsApp")>= 0) {
         var tsTester = require("./build/run-testsapp.grunt.js");
         tsTester.run(grunt);
-    } else {
-
+        return;
+    }
 
     var fs=require("fs");
     var pathModule=require("path");
@@ -175,6 +175,16 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
             nodeTests: {
                 src: localCfg.nodeTestsDir,
             },
+            builtModules: {
+                src: localCfg.outModulesDir
+            },
+            externalModules: {
+                expand: true,
+                src: '<%= grunt.option("path") %>/node_modules/tns-core-modules/**/*',
+                options: {
+                    force: true
+                },
+            },
             readyAppFiles: {
                 src: [localCfg.outModulesDir + "/apps/**"]
             }
@@ -285,6 +295,18 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
                 dest: localCfg.outDir + "/",
                 cwd: localCfg.outDir,
                 flatten: true
+            },
+            builtModules: {
+                expand: true,
+                src: [
+                    '**/*',
+                    '!*.md',
+                    '!apps/**/*',
+                    '!node_modules/**/*',
+                    '!node-tests/**/*',
+                ],
+                cwd: localCfg.outModulesDir,
+                dest: "<%= grunt.option('path') %>/node_modules/tns-core-modules/",
             }
         },
         ts: {
@@ -478,6 +500,22 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
         "clean:typeScriptLeftovers",
         "copy:childPackageFiles"
     ]);
+    grunt.registerTask("check-external-app", function() {
+        var appPath = grunt.option('path');
+        if (!appPath) {
+            grunt.fail.fatal("External app option required. Pass the --path option.");
+        }
+        if (!grunt.file.exists(appPath)) {
+            grunt.fail.fatal("External application path does not exist: " + appPath);
+        }
+    });
+    grunt.registerTask("update-external-app", [
+        "check-external-app",
+        "clean:builtModules",
+        "compile-modules",
+        "clean:externalModules",
+        "copy:builtModules"
+    ]);
     grunt.registerTask("distribute-apps-files", [
             "copy:readyAppFiles",
             "clean:readyAppFiles"
@@ -498,12 +536,9 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
         var combinedDtsPath = pathModule.join(localCfg.outModulesDir, 'tns-core-modules.d.ts');
         grunt.file.write(combinedDtsPath, dtsLines.join('\n'));
     });
+    //aliasing pack-modules for backwards compatibility
     grunt.registerTask("pack-modules", [
-                "copy:modulesPackageDef",
-                "copy:definitionFiles",
-                "copy:jsLibs",
-                "generate-tns-core-modules-dts",
-                "ts:testCombinedDts",
+        "compile-modules",
         "exec:packModules"
     ]);
     grunt.registerTask("pack-apps", [
@@ -517,27 +552,35 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
     ]);
 
     grunt.registerTask("default", ((typeof(grunt.option('runtslint')) != "undefined" && !grunt.option('runtslint')) ? [] : ["tslint:build"]).concat([
-                    "just-build",
+        "build-all",
 
         "pack-apps",
         "pack-ts-apps",
         "get-ready-packages"
     ]));
 
-        grunt.registerTask("just-build", ((typeof(grunt.option('runtslint')) != "undefined" && !grunt.option('runtslint')) ? [] : ["tslint:build"]).concat([
+    grunt.registerTask("compile-modules", [
         "clean:build",
         "shell:getGitSHA",
+        "compile-ts",
+        "bom:allTargetFiles",
+        "collect-modules-raw-files",
+        "copy:modulesPackageDef",
+        "copy:definitionFiles",
+        "copy:jsLibs",
+        "generate-tns-core-modules-dts",
+        "ts:testCombinedDts",
+    ]);
+
+    //alias just-build for backwards compatibility
+    grunt.registerTask("just-build", ["build-all"]);
+
+    grunt.registerTask("build-all", ((typeof(grunt.option('runtslint')) != "undefined" && !grunt.option('runtslint')) ? [] : ["tslint:build"]).concat([
+        "pack-modules",
 
         "collect-apps-raw-files",
-                    "collect-modules-raw-files",
-
-                    "compile-ts",
         "distribute-apps-files",
         "distribute-ts-apps-files",
-
-                    "bom:allTargetFiles",
-
-                    "pack-modules"
     ]));
 
     grunt.registerTask("node-tests", [
@@ -548,7 +591,4 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
         "env:nodeTests",
         "exec:mochaNode", //spawn a new process to use the new NODE_PATH
     ]);
-
-    }
-
 };

package.json

@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@
   "files": [
     "**/*.*",
     "**/*",
-    "!node-tests/"
+    "!.baseDir.*",
+    "!node-tests/",
+    "!apps/"
   ],
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "devDependencies": {