How to add a local cordova plugin with ionic / ionic 2 / ionic 3 / ionic 4 / ionic 5?

Question

I currently develop an app with ionic, and my cordova plugin in the same time. I wanted to know how to use the file plugins/fetch.json to update my plugin from a local file system. Any idea ?

Solution 1

To add a local plugin with ionic :

ionic cordova plugin add /path/to/my/plugin/my.plugin.folder.here/

to remove it :

ionic cordova plugin remove my.plugin.folder.here

But to update it it's another problem. Actually I'm removing and installing it again after each edit. Good luck ;)

EDIT

If you are using a previous version of ionic cli, and it doesn't work, change the commands to the following :

ionic plugin add /path/to/my/plugin/my.plugin.folder.here/

and

ionic plugin remove my.plugin.folder.here

Solution 2

If you are using plugman then

plugman install --platform android --project path/to/your/ionicapp/platforms/android --plugin /Path/to/your/cordova-plugin/MyDemo/

will install the plugin, read other options in project's readme.