Ken Naito created CB-14102:
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Summary: "cordova plugin add" removes other plugins installed from
Github
Key: CB-14102
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-14102
Project: Apache Cordova
Issue Type: Wish
Components: cordova-fetch
Affects Versions: 8.0.0
Reporter: Ken Naito
Fix For: 8.0.0
The cordova platform/plugin add commands use cordova-fetch to get the relevant
files. It does this by using npm.
However, [email protected] has an issue when installing modules from Github.
npm modules installed from a Github URL will be removed after installing other
npm modules.
The issue is on npm’s Github: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17379
For example, using node v9.5.0, npm v5.6.0 and cordova 8.0, run
$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/knight9999/HelloWorldPlugin.git
This adds helloworldplugin into the node_modules directory, as shown below:
$ ls node_modules/
fs-extra helloworldplugin jsonfile universalify
graceful-fs install npm
If we add further plugins like so:
$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-camera
The previous modules in node_modules directory disappear.
$ ls node_modules/
cordova-plugin-camera
This is fixed in [email protected], as mentioned in the issue link above.
It is possible that the user cannot update their global npm version due to some
other dependencies. I suggest that we add a way for the user to override the
npm executable which is used by Cordova. For example, we could add an
environment variable as below, which would be used instead of the global npm:
CORDOVA_NPM=/home/user/bin/npm
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