From 11d50c32bd5b2b9b37b7fd7d4fd4353cc111b614 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: stffabi <stffabi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:03:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [dev] Ignore empty install command, we also do ignore it
 during the build step (#1651)

Otherwise we can't use `wails dev` for projects where `wails build` works, e.g. on the plain template.
---
 v2/cmd/wails/internal/commands/dev/dev.go | 37 +++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/v2/cmd/wails/internal/commands/dev/dev.go b/v2/cmd/wails/internal/commands/dev/dev.go
index 24eb8a24..b17b7d43 100644
--- a/v2/cmd/wails/internal/commands/dev/dev.go
+++ b/v2/cmd/wails/internal/commands/dev/dev.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"github.com/bitfield/script"
 	"io"
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
@@ -20,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/bitfield/script"
 	"github.com/google/shlex"
 	"github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/cmd/wails/internal"
 	"github.com/wailsapp/wails/v2/internal/gomod"
@@ -187,25 +187,22 @@ func AddSubcommand(app *clir.Cli, w io.Writer) error {
 		exitCodeChannel := make(chan int, 1)
 
 		// Install if needed
-		installCommand := projectConfig.GetDevInstallerCommand()
-		if installCommand == "" {
-			return fmt.Errorf("no `frontend:dev` or `frontend:install` defined. Please add one of these to your wails.json")
-		}
-
-		// Install initial frontend dev dependencies
-		err = os.Chdir(filepath.Join(cwd, "frontend"))
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		LogGreen("Installing frontend dependencies...")
-		pipe := script.Exec(installCommand)
-		pipe.Wait()
-		if pipe.Error() != nil {
-			return pipe.Error()
-		}
-		err = os.Chdir(cwd)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
+		if installCommand := projectConfig.GetDevInstallerCommand(); installCommand != "" {
+			// Install initial frontend dev dependencies
+			err = os.Chdir(filepath.Join(cwd, "frontend"))
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			LogGreen("Installing frontend dependencies...")
+			pipe := script.Exec(installCommand)
+			pipe.Wait()
+			if pipe.Error() != nil {
+				return pipe.Error()
+			}
+			err = os.Chdir(cwd)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
 		}
 
 		// frontend:dev:watcher command.