Build CCX File from the Command Line

UXP Developer Tool
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Hi,

I’ve been asked if it’s possible build CCX files is part of an automated workflow. That would request a way to do it from command line instead of from the Developer Tool.

It looks like the @adobe/uxp-devtools-cli package should be able to do this, however, it has a rabbit hole of dependency issues and doesn’t install.

Does anyone have something like this working?

Thanks,

Spike

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CCX is nothing else, but the ZIP renamed. Any tool that can compress and rename will do. I personally have a Webpack set up to handle everything and Dev Tools are used exclusively to load and debug

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:thinking: The CLI tool is definitely used internally by Adobe employees using UXP…

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Got it, thanks! I had assumed that CCX has some kind of signature like ZXP do.

Any chance you’d share the relevant bits of your webpack.config.js?

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Check this post

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I have no doubt if works for them :grinning:. I think it’s a documentation issue, there are some external dependancies that I don’t have the bandwidth to figure out. @Karmalakas’ solution will work for me, but I’d be happy to talk to someone at Adobe and show them what I ran into.

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Hi @Spike !

We did talk this over on our team, and decided [sample code illustrating this would be helpful],(Sample code that builds a CCX file from the Command Line · Issue #57 · AdobeDocs/uxp · GitHub) and have added it to our backlog.

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@Spike The UDT CLI links referred above is incorrect. You should ideally be using - https://github.com/adobe-uxp/devtools-cli/

The uxp plugin package command can be used to generate CCX files in an automated way.

Note: if an App is connected the package command will do an elaborate validation of the plugin package(mainly manifest validation), else it does an basic check if no app is connected.

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