[CB-9994] Do not create .appxupload packages for Windows builds

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Auto Closed
• Component/s: cordova-windows
• Labels: build features windows

Environment

Windows Store Apps

• Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
• Reporter: Philipp Kursawe
• Created: 13/Nov/15 17:31
• Updated: 05/Jul/19 13:05
• Resolved: 05/Jul/19 13:05

Description

The CLI currently generates Windows Store Apps in a different way than VisualStudio would do it.

In Visual Studio no appx/appxupload packages are built in the normal build. Instead VS copies/compiles all the files to a bld folder and deploys the app from that folder. No signing cert required, dev cert is enough for that. It's also a much faster build that way. If you only change one js files, the build is basically instant, as well as the deployment because Windows does a binary diff package update in the system. This is much faster than the current way CLI builds Windows targets.

There should be a CLI task "publish" to create the .appxupload package, they should not be created on every build.