Components and npm modules are not updated

[jfresco]

When you add a new component or npm module and run make, component install and npm install are not executed if components and node_modules directories exists. As a workaround, you have to run make clean && make, delete the directories manually or run component install and/or npm install.

I think it is due to node_modules and components Makefile targets are not PHONY. According to GNU make docs, when targets are executed, make looks for a file with the target name, and if it exists, the target is not executed unless is PHONY. In this case, make components is generating a components directory, so when this directory exists, components target is bypassed. Same thing with node_modules.

[xasos]

+1

[cristiandouce]

@jfresco this was made on purpose since you don't want component install and npm install to be executed every time you run your app. Only when you update your dependencies, and specially on development where you stop and start the process many times.

The Makefile was inteded to be used only for development. So I don't see the harm on leaving it like it is now.

npm install and component install tasks take some time to run. In development on each stop/start you want it to be executed as fast as possible, since you may be executing/drive testing code for the server.