microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Allow AppxBundle to be customised in msbuildprops
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Description
Summary
Because of the hard-coded AppxBundle=Never option, you cannot override it with the msbuildprops property.
Ideally this reads the msbuildprops option before setting a default.
Motivation
Generating an .appxbundle still has some use cases. Currently this requires a package to the library
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Research direction
Start in packages/@react-native-windows/cli/src/utils/msbuildtools.ts around line 112 and inspect how the msbuildprops option is handled. Ensure the provided AppxBundle value is respected before a default is assigned; done means callers can customize AppxBundle and still use the existing packaging flow.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native, typescript
- Domain
- build-system, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 50/100