ASP.NET Core 3 and React

Publishing process

The publishing process is the process of building artifacts to run an application in a production environment.

Let's carry on and inspect the XML ASP.NET Core project file and look at the Target element, which has the following Name attribute: PublishRunWebPack. The following code executes a set of tasks when the Visual Studio project is published:

<Target Name="PublishRunWebpack" AfterTargets="ComputeFilesToPublish">  <!-- As part of publishing, ensure the JS resources are freshly built    in production mode -->  <Exec WorkingDirectory="$(SpaRoot)" Command="npm install" />  <Exec WorkingDirectory="$(SpaRoot)" Command="npm run build" />  <!-- Include the newly-built files in the publish output -->  <ItemGroup> <DistFiles Include="$(SpaRoot)build\**" ...