UPDATED: version number

ADDED: clean up the dist/ directory before generation production builds

Author: warpdesign

package-lock.json

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
     "@types/react-virtualized": "^9.18.12",
     "awesome-typescript-loader": "^5.2.1",
     "aws-sdk": "^2.332.0",
+    "clean-webpack-plugin": "^2.0.2",
     "copy-webpack-plugin": "^5.0.3",
     "css-loader": "^1.0.0",
     "electron": "^3.0.5",
@@ -90,4 +91,4 @@
     "react-i18next": "^8.4.0",
     "react-virtualized": "^9.21.0"
   }
-}
+}

package.json

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 const path = require('path');
 const HtmlWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
+const CleanWebpackPlugin = require('clean-webpack-plugin');
 const CopyPlugin = require('copy-webpack-plugin');
 const webpack = require('webpack');
 const packageJson = require('./package.json');
@@ -77,12 +78,18 @@ module.exports = [
             target: 'electron-main',
             entry: { main: './src/electron/main.ts' },
             plugins: [
+                new CleanWebpackPlugin({
+                    cleanOnceBeforeBuildPatterns: [path.join(process.cwd(), 'dist/**/*')],
+                    dangerouslyAllowCleanPatternsOutsideProject: true,
+                    dry: false
+                }),
                 new webpack.DefinePlugin({
                     'ENV.CY': false,
                     'ENV.NODE_ENV': JSON.stringify(baseConfig.mode),
                     'ENV.VERSION': JSON.stringify(packageJson.version),
                     'ENV.HASH': JSON.stringify(gitHash)
-                })
+                },
+                )
             ]
         },
         baseConfig),