Exclude development code from build

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Certain features in my Meteor app have more than one solutions/implementations for evaluation purpose. All these implementations are supposed to be available in development mode (one to be selected at a time from the UI), but only one of the alternative solutions for a specific feature should be included in the production build (because we also have a need to minimize the size of the app bundle).

So far, I’ve got it work out for the availability of solutions in development or production mode:

In client side:

<template name="template_A">
  {{#if development}}
    <!-- All solutions available -->
  {{else}}
    <!-- A selected solution for production available -->
  {{/if}}
</template>

In server side:

if ( Meteor.isDevelopment) {
  /* Relevant code */
} else {
  /* Relevant code */
}

But I believe all the only-development-relevant code still go to the production app bundle. Is there a way to exclude them from production build?

2

Hi,

I would use source control to manage this, by using feature branches, instead of putting development / evaluation code in the production branch. That’s what git is very good at!

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git has been already there for versioning features of the app. But the components I want to exclude from my production build have less to do with versioning. For example: I have some data source that get improved overtime and has been under version control; I want to display this data source using 3 different charts libraries; which chart to be used is selected by a drop-down button which should only be displayed in development mode; in production mode, only one chart library is used and is the only one that should go in the app bundle.

I hope there is some special feature of Meteor that allows build to exclude development code just like it can do with tests?

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If you use packages to build your project you can also specify debugonly and that code won’t go into production builds

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5

Another way could be by running Meteor in test --full-app mode: Only in this mode are *.app-test[s].* files included. When you run on normal dev-mode, or build for production, there are not included.

e.g., a file my-feature.app-test.js is only loaded when started with meteor test --full-app

https://guide.meteor.com/1.3-migration.html#full-app-testing

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