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Simpler hooks (2017-01-04-powershell-module-pipeline.md)

2017-01-04-powershell-module-pipeline is a great post. As the author of Invoke-Build, I am glad it is recommended as the task runner. I have a remark on task hooks.

Here is what proposed in the blog post:

    ###############################################################################
    # Main build script with hooks
    ###############################################################################

    # Synopsis: Clean Artifacts Directory
    task Clean BeforeClean, {
        # ...
    }, AfterClean

    ###############################################################################
    # Extra x.settings.ps1 with dummy hooks
    ###############################################################################

    # Synopsis: Executes before the Clean task.
    task BeforeClean {}

    # Synopsis: Executes after the Clean task.
    task AfterClean {}

There is nothing wrong with this and in PSake this is probably the only way.

In Invoke-Build, though, we can use simpler hooks, thanks to Before and After.
See the example below. Note that example hooks are commented out, we do not have
to define dummy hooks. We just define them when needed and use Before or After.

    ###############################################################################
    # Main build script. Note that we do not have to pre-define/inject hooks
    ###############################################################################

    # Synopsis: Clean Artifacts Directory
    task Clean {
        # ...
    }

    ###############################################################################
    # Extra x.settings.ps1, note that we do not have to define dummy hooks
    ###############################################################################

    # Synopsis: Executes before the Clean task.
    #task BeforeClean -Before Clean {}

    # Synopsis: Executes after the Clean task.
    #task AfterClean -After Clean {}