Can not get superdevmode in RELEASE mode for HTML5?

[EvgeniiZaikin]

Hello!

I created HTML5 application. I run gradlew html:dist command. I run http-server html/build/dist command. Where my game? I see message that superdevmode need. Why?

[EvgeniiZaikin]

Well... I normally run release app by this instruction. Summary I copied dist folder from app folders to external folder (in my case desktop folder). Remove WEB-INF folder. And successfully run with node.js server. May be you can add this into deploying instruction.

[tommyettinger]

Those deploying instructions have said this about Node.js, since about 2 years ago:

With Node.js npm install http-server -g then http-server html/build/dist and browse at http://localhost:8080/ . docs

Does that not work? I really don't think the desktop module should have any HTML-specific files in it. If you meant the Desktop folder for your user account, not a desktop project's folder, I don't know of any particular reason why one would be different from the other. If your project is in a OneDrive folder, take it out of there, because OneDrive really makes a mess out of IDEA's or Android Studio's caches, and causes strange bugs.

I've never had to remove the WEB-INF folder. Then again, I almost exclusively use projects generated by gdx-liftoff for HTML, and Liftoff removes the contents of WEB-INF/deploy/html/symbolMaps/ for dist builds (because they can be quite large). So I suppose the code I wrote removes specific parts of WEB-INF anyway...