I made a simple package that automates the deployment process for mobile apps

[nidhaloff]

Hi there, first of all, thank you for this amazing tool.

I like ionic very much and I started using it whenever I get a new idea for a project. However, the deployment process for mobile phones always bothered me! I needed to search a lot in the forums etc.. to find a way to deploy my ionic react app to android and then to play store. It was tedious!

In the capacitor and ionic docs, I found commands to build the app for android or ios, but as a beginner, I didn't understand what this do. I run the commands but this didn't generate an .apk file for me, so I was confused, like what did the command do if not build the app and make an .apk file from it? I didn't understand what is happening.

Like I said I'm a beginner in this field. I just wanted to have a tool to build an .apk file, then I can upload that to my phone and install it and if everything is good then I will make it ready for play store or app store.

What I didn't understand is why there is no command in capacitor for this. Like for example -> capacitor generate apk or something. Maybe there is even something like this that I missed or didn't see?

Anyway, so I created a node package that automates this process and now I use it in my projects. After a while, I thought why not share this project and make it open source so that people can also use it. So here I am, I wanted to tell you that the project exists and if you want, you can integrate it in capacitor to let users generate apk files directly with one command. I named the package buildonic

Github link: https://github.com/nidhaloff/buildonic
npm link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/buildonic