Please, let me know what information I can provide to better help troubleshoot this issue. As of right now, I've been reading up on webpack, comparing my webpack.config.js file, and random searches into the Google void.
Earlier this morning, I was running my NativeScript-vue project as expected. Made some changes, saved, tested, wash, rinse repeat. Then I tried a build and I got the following error message:
Unable to apply changes on device: emulator-####. Error is: Nativescript-vue doesn't work without --bundle option. Please specify --bundle option to the command and execute it again..
I've been making edits in one .vue file -- I have not been tinkering with any other files, especially not configuration files.
What is causing this issue?
How can I resolve this issue?
Is there a more intelligent search I can do than pasting in the error message?
UPDATE:
As requested by @Estradiaz
I've been attempting to run the application with:
tns run android --bundle
(also tried with ios and got the same results)
I've built the project using both npm install and tns install
The only script I have in my package.json is:
"clean": "rm -rf node_modules/* && rm -rf hooks/* && rm -rf platforms/* && rm webpack.config.js && rm package-lock.json"
(just to nuke everything if/when new assets are being added)
Running TNS version #5.2.4
The terminal's output is:
Webpack compilation complete. Watching for file changes.
Webpack build done!
Unable to apply changes on device: emulator-5554. Error is: Nativescript-vue doesn't work without --bundle option. Please specify --bundle option to the command and execute it again..
UPDATED UPDATE:
Estradiaz drops some great knowledge; however, my error was discovered to have come from when my nativescript-vue package updated to 2.1.0 from 2.0.2
Rolling back to 2.0.2 resolved my specific issue. Other devs have started to report similar issues: https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/issues/454 and https://github.com/nativescript-vue/nativescript-vue/pull/361#issuecomment-474079850
After some troubleshooting (and help from the tech lead), we tracked down that a new nativescript-vue package was released today (going from 2.0.2 to 2.1.0).
In that, "feature" #361 is: "show error when --bundle option is not provided"
I don't know what this actually means in the scope of my project or how I was invoking the build or why it was breaking ... but rolling back to 2.0.2 resolved my issue.