Fixed enormous bug in not passing the app configuration properly

.gitignore

@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@ node_modules
 .DS_Store
 build/
 
-# the file used to pass variables from the cli to the app
-app/targetUrl.txt
 
 
 

app/main.js

@@ -31,13 +31,12 @@ app.on('ready', function() {
     );
     mainWindow.loadUrl('file://' + __dirname + '/index.html');
 
-    //mainWindow.openDevTools();
     mainWindow.webContents.on('did-finish-load', function() {
-
-        fs.readFile(__dirname + '/targetUrl.txt', 'utf8', function (error, data) {
+        fs.readFile(APP_ARGS_FILE_PATH, 'utf8', function (error, data) {
             if (error) {
                 console.error('Error reading file: ' + error);
             } else {
+                console.log(data);
                 mainWindow.webContents.send('params', data);
             }
 

cli.js

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ var args = require('minimist')(process.argv.slice(2), {boolean: ['prune', 'asar'
 var packager = require('./');
 var usage = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/usage.txt').toString();
 var validator = require('validator');
+var tempDir = require('./tempDir');
 
-args.dir = './app';
+
+args.dir = 'blah'; // set to true first
 args.name = args._[0];
 
 var protocolSchemes = [].concat(args.protocol || []);
@@ -29,22 +31,24 @@ if (!validator.isURL(args.target)) {
     process.exit(1);
 }
 
-// writes parameters for the app into a text file
-// I'm not exactly sure how to pass these as an argument through code
-var appArgs = {
-    name: args.name,
-    targetUrl: args.target
-};
-fs.writeFileSync(__dirname +  '/app/targetUrl.txt', JSON.stringify(appArgs));
+tempDir(args.name, args.target, function (error, appDir) {
 
-
-packager(args, function done(err, appPaths) {
-    if (err) {
-        if (err.message) console.error(err.message);
-        else console.error(err, err.stack);
+    if (error) {
+        console.error(error);
         process.exit(1);
+    } else {
+
+        args.dir = appDir;
+        packager(args, function done(err, appPaths) {
+            if (err) {
+                if (err.message) console.error(err.message);
+                else console.error(err, err.stack);
+                process.exit(1);
+            }
+
+            if (appPaths.length > 1) console.error('Wrote new apps to:\n' + appPaths.join('\n'));
+            else if (appPaths.length === 1) console.error('Wrote new app to', appPaths[0]);
+        });
     }
 
-    if (appPaths.length > 1) console.error('Wrote new apps to:\n' + appPaths.join('\n'));
-    else if (appPaths.length === 1) console.error('Wrote new app to', appPaths[0]);
 });

package.json

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     "rcedit": "^0.3.0",
     "rimraf": "^2.3.2",
     "run-series": "^1.1.1",
+    "temp": "^0.8.3",
     "validator": "^3.40.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {

tempDir.js

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/**
+ * Created by JiaHao on 5/7/15.
+ */
+
+var fs = require('fs');
+var temp = require('temp').track();
+var ncp = require('ncp').ncp;
+
+
+/**
+ * @callback tempDirCallback
+ * @param error
+ * @param tempDirPath
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Creates a temporary directory and copies the './app folder' inside, and adds a text file with the configuration
+ * for the single page app.
+ *
+ * @param {string} name
+ * @param {string} targetURL
+ * @param {tempDirCallback} callback
+ */
+module.exports = function (name, targetURL, callback) {
+
+    var tempDir = temp.path();
+
+    ncp('./app', tempDir, function (error) {
+        if (error) {
+            callback('Error creating temporary directory', null);
+
+        } else {
+
+            var appArgs = {
+                name: name,
+                targetUrl: targetURL
+            };
+
+            fs.writeFileSync(tempDir + '/targetUrl.txt', JSON.stringify(appArgs));
+
+            callback(error, tempDir);
+        }
+    });
+};
+
+