Telerik Appbuilder Cli build callback - javascript

I'm using Telerik AppBuilder Cli to build an app for IOS. I am also using libimobiledevice which allows me to install the app directly onto my iPhone for debugging.
I'm using a batch script to build the app, and I want the same build script to install the app after the build is completed and the .IPA file is created.
The problem I am running into, is that there doesn't seem to be a proper callback when the Appbuilder Cli has finished building the app. My attempted solution was to use the && syntax like so:
appbuilder build `arguments` && goto install
:install
idevice install `arguments`
The form of my script has :install before the build ( so it can be used conditionally in case I want to build without installing ). However the install callback never fires. I double-checked my conditional, and the only thing I can figure is that the Appbuilder Cli is ignoring the && or something.
Is there a proper way to be notified when the build process is complete? Or is there a javascript library for Appbuilder apart from the cli version?
Thanks

AppBuilder CLI has a command that will build and deploy the application directly. Just use:
appbuilder deploy <platform>
And this will deploy the application on the specified platform, for example ios.
You can find more information in the documentation.
Also you can use appbuilder help deploy to check the help of the command.

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I have doubts because, for example, the command build and the command run both seems to build the app...
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Reading their docs was actually really helpful, so I would recommend doing that as well. https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/reference/cordova-cli/index.htm

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