XcodeGen VS cordova-node-xcode

Worth noting if project file changes would be pretty common in the development flow then maybe using a regen tool would be useful to prevent major conflicts, I’d recommend https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen

There are a lot of tools and solutions that can help manage a large codebase. For example, a good CI/CD system linked to GitHub or your internal source control system can ensure that all of your unit tests and UI tests run on every PR and block PRs from merging if there are test failures. And if the company chooses not to check in the .xcodeproj or .xcworkspace file, but rather rely on project autogeneration tools like xcodegen, then you can eliminate annoying merge conflicts in PRs that happen when two teams happen to touch files that are near each other in the .pbxproj file (but at the cost of developers always having to run xcodegen when checking out a new branch).

`git clone https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen.git cd XcodeGen make install`

Parent comment is right, but check out XcodeGen and get away from the project file. It’s an abomination.

I don't see anything wrong with your gitignore. If this is causing too many problems, have you considered using a tool that will generate xcodeproj files for you, like XcodeGen?

Curious why you guys built XCodeJS instead of going with XcodeGen or Tuist

It's such trash. For my personal projects, XcodeGen is a lifesaver.

How Apple thinks that a single god file is a good idea is crazy to me. No other build tool needs this.

https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen

We are producing a white-label mobile app which also runs on Apple devices. It's part of our build chain to modify bespoken Xcode project files. Of great help is this node library which allows automating our build process which includes modifications to the Xcode project file: https://github.com/apache/cordova-node-xcode

Since the Xcode config is just a legacy plist file Xcode will recognize it if it is converted to json. So we just leave it as json right? Well I wish it was that easy but there is also Cordova and that has it’s own Xcode config parser that is actually quite bad cordova-node-xcode. It must have the legacy plist format and to make matters even worth it also needs the comments preserved.