re-added full builds to gulp script as livesync builds does NOT give terminal outputs (see NativeScript/nativescript-cli#763 )

Author: Emil Öberg

README.md

@@ -28,9 +28,18 @@ gulp startIOS
 # To watch for file changes. When a file is changed
 # the source is recomipled (from ES2015 to ES5) and 
 # changes pushed to the emulator.
-gulp watchIOS
+gulp livesyncIOS
 ```
 
+or run:
+
+```
+gulp watchFullIOS
+```
+
+Currently, NativeScript does unfortunately not display `console.log` or exception statements in the terminal when running with livesync. Therefor we still have to do full rebuilds with the `watchFullIOS` command to get terminal outputs.
+
+
 ### File structure
 ```
 | - gulpfile.js - Development gulp file (for recompiling, etc)

gulpfile.js

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ gulp.task('startIOS', function(cb) {
     cb();
 });
 
-gulp.task('watchIOS', function(callback) {
+gulp.task('livesyncIOS', function(callback) {
     console.log();
     console.log(chalk.blue('Watcher started, will restart emulator when files change'));
     console.log();
@@ -116,6 +116,21 @@ gulp.task('watchIOS', function(callback) {
     );
 });
 
+gulp.task('watchFullIOS', function(callback) {
+    console.log();
+    console.log(chalk.blue('Watcher started, will restart emulator when files change'));
+    console.log();
+    gulp.watch(watchedFiles, function () {
+            runSequence(
+                '_clean',
+                '_compile',
+                '_watchFullIOS',
+                callback);
+        }
+    );
+});
+
+
 gulp.task('lint', function () {
     return gulp.src(babelSrc)
         .pipe(eslint())
@@ -200,6 +215,31 @@ gulp.task('_livesyncIOS', function(cb) {
 
 });
 
+gulp.task('_watchFullIOS', function(cb) {
+    var child = spawn('tns', ['emulate', 'ios', '--device', iOSEmulator], {cwd: process.cwd() + '/' + pathToStartAppFrom});
+    var stdout = '';
+    var stderr = '';
+
+    child.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
+    child.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
+        stdout += data;
+        console.log(data);
+    });
+
+    child.stderr.setEncoding('utf8');
+    child.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
+        stderr += data;
+        console.log(chalk.red(data));
+    });
+
+    child.on('close', function(code) {
+        console.log('Done with exit code', code);
+    });
+
+    cb();
+
+});
+
 gulp.task('_emulateAndroid', function(cb) {
     //▶ tns emulate android --geny Nexus-5
     var child = spawn('tns', ['emulate', 'android', '--geny', androidEmulator], {cwd: process.cwd()});
@@ -448,7 +488,7 @@ gulp.task('default', function() {
     console.log();
     console.log(chalk.magenta('  Main tasks'));
     console.log();
-    console.log('    ' + chalk.blue('gulp watchIOS') + '            - Start watching files, recompile Javascript and restart');
+    console.log('    ' + chalk.blue('gulp livesyncIOS') + '            - Start watching files, recompile Javascript and restart');
     console.log('                               emulator (set to: ' + iOSEmulator + ') when files change.');
     console.log();
     console.log('    ' + chalk.blue('gulp watchAndroid') + '        - Start watching files, recompile Javascript and restart');