Removing cordova plugins from the project

Question

Somehow in my app many of the cordova plugins are installed and because of that it requires access to almost everything - from my contacts to current location ( even though

Answer 1

From the terminal (osx) I usually use

cordova plugin -l | xargs cordova plugins rm

Pipe, pipe everything!

To expand a bit: this command will loop through the results of cordova plugin -l and feed it to cordova plugins rm.

xargs is one of those commands that you wonder why you didn't know about before. See this tut.