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

• access the folder
• list the plugins (cordova plugin list)
• ionic cordova plugin remove "pluginName"

Should be fine!

Answer 2

I do it with this python one-liner:

python -c "import subprocess as sp;[sp.call('cordova plugin rm ' + p.split()[0], shell=True) for p in sp.check_output('cordova plugin', shell=True).split('\n') if p]"

Obviously it doesn't handle any sort of error conditions, but it gets the job done.

Answer 3

If the above solution didn't work and you got any unhandled promise rejection then try to follow steps :

1. Clean the Cordova project

   cordova clean

   2. Remove platform

cordova platform remove android/ios

3. Then remove plugin

cordova plugin remove

4. add platforms and run the project It worked for me.

Answer 4

This is somewhat related and might help others, I had a corrupt version of some of my plugins so I was able to just delete the entire contents of the plugins folder. Note, all references are still in the package.json and config.xml files to the plugins. So then when I removed and added the Android platform, it re-installed the uncorrupted versions of the plugins and fixed my problem.

Answer 5

v2.0.0 of cordova-check-plugins enables you to remove all plugins in a project:

$ npm install -g cordova-check-plugins
$ cordova-check-plugins --remove-all

It will attempt to use the Cordova CLI to remove each plugin, but if this fails it will force removal of the plugin from platforms/ and plugins/.

If you also want to remove from config.xml, use:

$ cordova-check-plugins --remove-all --save

Disclaimer: I am the author of cordova-check-plugins

Answer 6

When running the command: cordova plugin remove <PLUGIN NAME>, ensure that you do not add the version number to the plugin name. Just plain plugin name, for example:

cordova plugin remove cordova.plugin_name 

and not:

cordova plugin remove cordova.plugin_name 0.01 

or

cordova plugin remove "cordova.plugin_name 0.01"

In case there is a privilege issue, run with sudo if you are on a *nix system, for example:

sudo cordova plugin remove cordova.plugin_name

Then you may add --save to remove it from the config.xml file. For example:

cordova plugin remove cordova.plugin_name --save