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

Scripts based on processing the list of installed plugins may not work as there are dependencies between installed plugins (e,g, cordova-plugin-file and cordova-plugin-file-transfer).

In the example, the script will find the file plugin first, then it will try to remove it and we'll get an error as file-transfer requires it. Therefore, we shall have

Answer 2

First, you should list your plugins:

cordova plugin list

With this result, you can simply do:

cordova plugin remove <PLUGIN_NAME>

For example:

cordova plugin remove org.apache.cordova.media

Hope it helps.

Answer 3

You could use: cordova plugins list | awk '{print $1}' | xargs cordova plugins rm

and use cordova plugins list to verify if plugins are all removed.

Answer 4

As far as I remember from Cordova, you should have an xml file in "res" folder containing the list of plugins used in your project. You probably need to remove those unused plugins from list. And also you should remove related files.

Answer 5

This is the commandline for removing plugins in Cordova

cordova plugin remove <pluginid>

For example I ran cordova plugin and got a list of plugins then I used the id for the plugin to uninstall

cordova plugin remove com.monday.contact-chooser

You can get help in the commandline by typing

cordova help <command>

Answer 6

You can do it with bash as well (after switching to your Cordova project directory):

for i in `cordova plugin ls | grep '^[^ ]*' -o`; do cordova plugin rm $i; done