[Feature] Clean/delete dist before building

[Vivek205]

• I'd be willing to implement this feature
• This feature can already be implemented through a plugin - rimraf

Describe the user story

Everytime I have to manually clear the dist folder before running the build script. Else, the old files sitting already in the dist folder are causing trouble by polluting imports.

Describe the solution you'd like

I want a script to clear the existing dist file before building the package. So it could be automated. And I won't run into the issue of old files again. It will be somewhat similar to yarn autoclean but autoclean remove files only inside the node_modules.

Describe the drawbacks of your solution

I can't think of any at this moment

Describe alternatives you've considered

I considered using rimraf that is the only cross-platform alternative as per my knowledge.

[merceyz]

I considered using rimraf that is the only cross-platform alternative as per my knowledge.

Yarn has built-in support for rm -rf in scripts

EDIT: I had that wrong, I was thinking about environment variables

[Vivek205]

I considered using rimraf that is the only cross-platform alternative as per my knowledge.

Yarn has built-in support for rm -rf in scripts

Yh. but that works only for the linux machines. In windows machine it will not work. That's why I'm looking for a cross platform solution

[arcanis]

You want git clean -df, probably. In any case, I don't think that's something Yarn should do.

[paul-soporan]

Closing this as it's outside the scope of Yarn. Also, we don't know which scripts create build folders when run and we can't magically extract the folder path from them.