Can I use Maven with Sencha Cmd instead of Ant, or must it use Ant?

ant, extjs, maven, sencha-cmd

Solution

You can build your Sencha ExtJS project with Maven using Sencha CMD. It's rather easy. Check my example project Sencha ExtJS 5 + Sencha Cmd 5 + Maven:

https://github.com/dobromyslov/sencha-extjs-maven

Sencha ExtJS 5.0 BETA available at the moment. Read Sencha CMD docs and try it in action.

Then just put your project in the `webapp` folder and use `exec-maven-plugin` to build your ExtJS application with Sencha CMD like this:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<executions>
    <execution>
        <id>sencha-compile</id>
        <phase>compile</phase>
        <goals>
            <goal>exec</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
            <!-- Set path to your Sencha Cmd executable-->
            <executable>../Sencha/Cmd/5.0.0.116/sencha</executable>
            <arguments>
                <argument>-sdk</argument>
                <argument>${basedir}/src/main/webapp</argument>
                <argument>app</argument>
                <argument>build</argument>
                <argument>--clean</argument>
                <argument>--environment</argument>
                <argument>${sencha.env}</argument>
                <argument>--destination</argument>
                <argument>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/build</argument>
            </arguments>
        </configuration>
    </execution>
</executions>

If you want to purge unnecessary files from the resulting WAR file then use `maven-war-plugin` with configured exclusions like this:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
    <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
    <webResources>
        <resource>
            <directory>src/main/webapp/build/${sencha.env}/MyApp</directory>
            <excludes>
                <exclude>**/Readme.md</exclude>
            </excludes>
        </resource>
    </webResources>
    <packagingExcludes>.sencha/**,app/**,build/**,ext/**,overrides/**,packages/**,sass/**,bootstrap.css,bootstrap.js,bootstrap.json,build.xml,Readme.md</packagingExcludes>
</configuration>

Problem

We are making changes to use Sencha Cmd, but it uses Ant. We use Maven for other things, so can we make changes to a config file or something, so Sencha Cmd uses Maven not Ant, or must we have Ant installed to use Sencha Cmd. Thanks in advance.

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