Dist build not creating assets

[MichaelLSmith]

Describe the problem
This might be my ignorance, but when I run dist-build, no build folder is created. I just see the build subfolder in the src folder. Where do the assets end up? I thought it created a build folder.

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Working with understrap child - v 1.1.0

• [v16.18.0 ] The output of node -v
• [git version 2.25.1 ] The output of git --version

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Additional context
Is there documentation showing the folder structure after running the build script?

[IanDelMar]

dist-build creates the folder dist not build.

[IanDelMar]

Did you find the folder?

[MichaelLSmith]

Thanks. Sorry I wasn't getting notifications. When I run dist-build I get this error:

`mlsmith45@Michael-Home:/mnt/d/WebProjects/adlerup/app/public/wp-content/themes/adler-understrap-child$ npm run dist-build

understrap-child@1.1.0 dist-build
node src/build/dist-build.js

node:internal/process/promises:279
triggerUncaughtException(err, true /* fromPromise */);
^

[Error: EACCES: permission denied, copyfile '.git/objects/00/65e60cba143e811fbdabde179831f84705b4c3' -> 'dist/.git/objects/00/65e60cba143e811fbdabde179831f84705b4c3'] {
errno: -13,
code: 'EACCES',
syscall: 'copyfile',
path: '.git/objects/00/65e60cba143e811fbdabde179831f84705b4c3',
dest: 'dist/.git/objects/00/65e60cba143e811fbdabde179831f84705b4c3'
}
mlsmith45@Michael-Home:/mnt/d/WebProjects/adlerup/app/public/wp-content/themes/adler-understrap-child$ `

[IanDelMar]

Can you please try replacing the current content of src/build/dist-build.js with

const { promises: fs } = require( 'fs' );
const path = require( 'path' );

async function copyDir( src, dest ) {
	await fs.mkdir( dest, { recursive: true } );
	let entries = await fs.readdir( src, { withFileTypes: true } );
	// Exclude all dot files and directories.
	entries = entries.filter( dirent => ! dirent.name.startsWith('.') );
	const ignore = [
		'dist',
		'node_modules',
		'src',
		'vendor',
		'composer.json',
		'composer.lock',
		'package.json',
		'package-lock.json',
		'phpcs.xml.dist',
		'phpmd.baseline.xml',
		'phpmd.xml',
		'phpstan-baseline.neon',
		'phpstan.neon.dist',
	];

	for ( const entry of entries ) {
		if ( ignore.indexOf( entry.name ) != -1 ) {
			continue;
		}
		let srcPath = path.join( src, entry.name );
		let destPath = path.join( dest, entry.name );

		entry.isDirectory()
			? await copyDir( srcPath, destPath )
			: await fs.copyFile( srcPath, destPath );
	}
}

copyDir('./', './dist');

[IanDelMar]

It also should be sufficient to do this in src/build/dist-build.js

	let ignore = [
		'node_modules',
		'dist',
		'src',
		'.github',
		'.browserslistrc',
		'.editorconfig',
		'.gitattributes',
		'.gitignore',
+               '.git',
		'.jscsrc',
		'.jshintignore',
		'.travis.yml',
		'composer.json',
		'composer.lock',
		'package.json',
		'package-lock.json',
		'phpcs.xml.dist',
		'readme.txt'
	];

However this #2094 (comment) is how we create the dist folder in the parent theme.

[MichaelLSmith]

Thanks so much. I'll give this try later today. I'm away from my project atm.

[MichaelLSmith]

That seems to have done it thanks!