Github user nikhilkh commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs/pull/489#discussion_r52085523
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title: Hooks Guide
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-# Hooks Guide
+# Hooks
+
+## Introduction
Cordova Hooks represent special scripts which could be added by
application and
plugin developers or even by your own build system to customize cordova
commands.
-Hook scripts could be defined by adding them to the special predefined
folder
-(`/hooks`) or via configuration files (`config.xml` and `plugin.xml`) and
run
-serially in the following order:
-
-* Application hooks from `/hooks`;
-* Application hooks from `config.xml`;
-* Plugin hooks from `plugins/.../plugin.xml`.
-__Note__: `/hooks` directory is considered deprecated in favor of the hook
elements
-in config.xml and plugin.xml.
-
-## Supported hook types
-The following hook types are supported:
-
- after_build
- after_compile
- after_clean
- after_docs
- after_emulate
- after_platform_add
- after_platform_rm
- after_platform_ls
- after_plugin_add
- after_plugin_ls
- after_plugin_rm
- after_plugin_search
- after_plugin_install // Plugin hooks in plugin.xml are executed for a
plugin being installed only
- after_prepare
- after_run
- after_serve
- before_build
- before_clean
- before_compile
- before_docs
- before_emulate
- before_platform_add
- before_platform_rm/
- before_platform_ls
- before_plugin_add
- before_plugin_ls
- before_plugin_rm
- before_plugin_search/
- before_plugin_install // Plugin hooks in plugin.xml are executed for a
plugin being installed only
- before_plugin_uninstall // Plugin hooks in plugin.xml are executed for
a plugin being uninstalled only
- before_prepare
- before_run
- before_serve
- pre_package // Windows and Windows Phone only
+Cordova hooks allow you to perform special activities around cordova
commands. For example,
+you may have a custom tool that checks for code formatting in your
javascript file. And, you
+would like to run this tool before every build. In such a case, you could
use a
+'before_build' hook and instruct the cordova run time to run the custom
tool to be invoked
+before every build.
+
+There are 2 types of hooks:
+
+- Application hooks
+- Plugins hooks
+
+### Application hooks
+
+These hooks are related to the application. For example, hooks such as
`before_build`,
+`after_build`, etc applies to your application.
+
+### Plugin hooks
+
+These hooks are related to the plugins of your application. For example,
hooks such as
+`before_plugin_add`, `after_plugin_add`, etc applies to plugin related
activities. These
+hooks can be associated with all plugins within your application or be
specific to only
+one plugin.
+
+Cordova supports the following hook types:
+
+<!-- START HTML -->
+
+<table class="hooks" width="100%">
+ <thead>
+ <tr>
+ <th>Hook Type</th>
+ <th>Associated Cordova Command</th>
+ <th>Description</th>
+ </tr>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" class="sd">Application hooks</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeplatformadd">before_platform_add</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova platform
add</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" class="description" data-col="description">To
be executed before and after adding a platform.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterplatformadd">after_platform_add</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeplatformrm">before_platform_rm</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova platform
rm</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" class="description" data-col="description">To
be executed before and after removing a platform.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterplatformrm">after_platform_rm</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeplatformls">before_platform_ls</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova platform
ls</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" class="description" data-col="description">To
be executed before and after listing the installed and available platforms.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterplatformls">after_platform_ls</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeprepare">before_prepare</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova
prepare</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after preparing your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterprepare">after_prepare</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforecompile">before_compile</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova
compile</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after compiling your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="aftercompile">after_compile</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforebuild">before_build</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova build</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after building your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterbuild">after_build</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeemulate">before_emulate</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova
emulate</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after emulating your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afteremulate">after_emulate</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforerun">before_run</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova run</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after running your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterrun">after_run</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeserve">before_serve</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova serve</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after serving your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterserve">after_serve</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeclean">before_clean</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova clean</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after cleaning your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterclean">after_clean</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="prepackage">pre_package</td>
+ <td data-col="code">N/A</td>
+ <td data-col="description">Applicable to Windows 8 and Windows
Phone only. This hook is deprecated.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th colspan="3" class="sd">Plugin hooks</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforepluginadd">before_plugin_add</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova plugin
add</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after adding a plugin.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterpluginadd">after_plugin_add</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforepluginrm">before_plugin_rm</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova plugin
rm</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after removing a plugin.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterpluginrm">after_plugin_rm</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforepluginls">before_plugin_ls</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova plugin
ls</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after listing the plugins in your application.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterpluginls">after_plugin_ls</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforepluginsearch">before_plugin_search</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova plugin
search</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after a plugin search.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterpluginsearch">after_plugin_search</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="beforeplugininstall">before_plugin_install</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova plugin
add</code></td>
+ <td rowspan="2" data-col="description">To be executed before
and after installing a plugin (to the platforms).</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th data-col="afterplugininstall">after_plugin_install</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <th
data-col="beforepluginuninstall">before_plugin_uninstall</th>
+ <td data-col="code" rowspan="2"><code>cordova plugin
rm</code></td>
+ <td data-col="description">To be executed before uninstalling
a plugin (from the platforms).</td>
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The important comment on how hooks from `plugin.xml` get executed is
missing.
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