work in progress: add backend to zip and strange behaviour in frontend

app.js

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 	const downloadFiles = require('./downloadFiles.json');
 	const downloadNames = Object.keys(downloadFiles);
 
-	let app = express();
+  var app = express();
 
   app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
     extended: true
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 
 		function backendClean(){
 			return new Promise((resolve,reject)=>{
-				exec('cd explorviz-ui-backend/plugins/net/explorviz/plugins/ && rm *', (error, stdout,stderr)=>{
+				exec('cd explorviz-ui-backend/plugins/net/explorviz/ && rm -rf plugins/*', (error, stdout,stderr)=>{
 					if (error) {
 						reject(error);
 						return;
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
 				if(checkedPlugins.length !== 0 ){
 
 					checkedPlugins.forEach((pluginName) => {
-						exec('git clone ' + downloadFiles[pluginName] + 'cd ' + pluginName + 'cp -r . explorviz-ui-backend/plugins/net/explorviz/plugins/', (error, stdout, stderr) => { //'cd explorviz-ui-backend/plugins/net/explorviz/plugins/ ' + 
+						exec('git clone ' + downloadFiles[pluginName] + ' && cp -R '+ pluginName + '/ '+' explorviz-ui-backend/plugins/net/explorviz/plugins/', (error, stdout, stderr) => { //'cd explorviz-ui-backend/plugins/net/explorviz/plugins/ ' + 
 							
 							if (error) {
 								reject(error);
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@
 
 		function backendAll(){
 			return backendClean().then(function(){
-
 				return backendPull().then(function(){
 					return backendInstallAddons().then(function(){
 						return backendBuild()
@@ -275,6 +274,7 @@
 
 
 			})
+      console.log('resolve build:', resolve);
     }
 
     function frontendAll() {
@@ -316,21 +316,29 @@ function streamFilesToZip(){
 			let finishedArray=[];
 			files.forEach(file => {
 				if (file.zipFileName === 'backend.war'){
-					const backendSteam = fsReaddir(file.path).on('data', function(data){
-						const backendReadStream = fs.createReadStream(data);
-						zip.file(zipFileName, backendReadStream);
-					}).on('error', function(){
-						console.log('error:', error);
-					}).on('finish', function(){
+// console.log('backendStream:');
+//              backendStream = fs.createReadStream(file.path);
+//              console.log('zip.file:');
+//             zip.file(file.zipFileName, backendStream);
+//             console.log('backend done:');
+// finishedArray.push('backend done');
+const backendStream = fs.readFileSync(file.path, "base64", function(error, data){
+  if(error){
+    console.log('error:', error)
+  }
+});
+          //console.log('backendStream:', backendStream);
+          const backendReadStream = fs.createReadStream(backendStream);
+          
+          zip.file(file.zipFileName, backendReadStream);
           finishedArray.push('backend finished');
           if(finishedArray.length === files.length){
            resolve();
          }
-					})
          
-						// backendStream = fs.createReadStream(file.path);
-						// zip.file(file.zipFileName, backendStream);
-						// finishedArray.push('backend done');
+
+
+         
        }
        if(file.zipFileName === 'frontend'){
         const frontendStream = fsReaddir(file.path)
@@ -338,7 +346,8 @@ function streamFilesToZip(){
          console.log('error:', err);
        }).on('data', function(data){
          for (let i=0; i<data.length; i++) {
-								const frontendReadsStream = fs.createReadStream(data[i]);
+          const frontendReadStream = fs.createReadStream(data[i]);
+          console.log('data[i]:', data[i]);
           zip.file(data[i], frontendReadStream);
         }
 
@@ -365,7 +374,9 @@ function createZip(){
 	console.log('in createZip');
 
 	return new Promise((resolve,reject) => {
-		zip.generateNodeStream({type:'nodebuffer',streamFiles:true}).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('explorviz-builds.zip')).on('finish', function () {
+		zip.generateNodeStream({type:'nodebuffer',streamFiles:true}).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('explorviz-builds.zip')).on('error', function(error){
+      console.log('error in createZip:', error);
+    }).on('finish', function () {
      console.log('explorviz-builds.zip written.');
      res.download('explorviz-builds.zip');
    });