Building, debugging and deploying Windows 10 UWP Cordova mobile apps from inside Intellij IDEA
I was searching through this forums, but couldn't find a bit of information.
Basically, what I want to achieve, is to configure in Intellij Idea 2017 building tasks of Cordova mobile app for Windows 10 Universal Windows Platform environment.
I've got some web application project, frontend uses Angular, NPM and Webpack, backend uses Java and SpringBoot.
I've also have configs for frontend to build it as Cordova mobile app for iOS and Android.
What I want to achieve is configure build tasks in IntelliJ to be able to compile and package Cordova mobile app for Windows 10 UWP, without the need to use Visual Studio - just install manually needed requirements, like MSBuild, Windows SDK .etc and set MS building toolset to be accessible and usable from and by IntelliJ.
Unfortunately, Run/Debug Configurations for PhoneGap/Cordova doesn't only don't support debugging Windows phone apps, but also UWP platform entirely.
Are there some mild-complicated tricks to make MS dev tools be accessible from inside IntelliJ?
If not, are there planned any?
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No, it's not possible... Cordova support in WebStorm is very basic actually - right now all WebStorm does it starting the tools via CLI
Note that since 2017.2 you will be able to choose 'windows' platform when running your app - see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-21081#u=1493730765167
Ok, thanks for quick response.
So, could You treat my question as a suggestion, to add a lot more support for Cordova in IntelliJ?
Also detecting Universal Windows Platform building environment, doesn't matter if environment was installed manually or as dependecies with Visual Studio?
Plus, ability to use Windows simulators, emulators, deployment to physical devices with neat code and network debuggers of Cordova apps like VS has?
Cheers!
Please feel free to file a feature request to youtrack, https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/WEB
Thank you!