Capacitor: feat: Ability to specify androidDir iosDir and electronDir like webDir

[tvvignesh]

Hi. In the configuration options here: https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/basics/configuring-your-app I see webDir being used to specify different location of the web project and that works great.

Would be great if we have the ability to specify custom directories for the built files as well like androidDir, electronDir, iosDir, etc. so that we can have them somewhere else.

Thanks.

[jcesarmobile]

Issues tagged with feature request are closed but tracked for reactions to gauge interest.

[dwieeb]

Just adding a note that webDir isn't for the web platform, but the directory Capacitor looks for web assets to copy into the native projects. What would make more sense is a path option in each platform's configuration object (ios.path, android.path).

In Capacitor 3 we _may_ be introducing a new directory for the web platform (probably web/) that Capacitor uses to copy web assets into if it were to manage service workers, etc (see the discussion in https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/1892).

[tvvignesh]

@dwieeb That would be awesome. I just have one question. May I know if it would be good to start off with Capacitor 3 beta today? Would there be major breaking changes after today? I am launching my product on Sept 15th and I wanted to do all the migration asap so that I don't have to do breaking migration atleast for 2-3 months.

Also, now that electron is not officially supported by capacitor team but rather by the community, and there may be more custom plugins like that. So, is there a way to tell capacitor that this is the electronDir or chromeExtDir or any other platform for which we use ionic/capacitor?

[dwieeb]

@tvvignesh I would not recommend using Capacitor 3 for any production app. We will be doing regular alpha and beta releases, but they're meant to be used in a development setting for feedback.

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking about Electron, but each third-party platform can use their own object in capacitor.config.json for configuration.