Cordova - Current working directory is not a Cordova-based project

Question

I\'m using phonegap for my mobile project. My question is why I got this error when I try to search phonegap plugin using cordova CLI? I run this command in terminal to sear

Answer 1

I cannot explain the source of the error, but in case you are looking for a solution, you might want to try plugman instead.

Answer 2

you have to be in the current project in command prompt(example project name is myapp).

Answer 3

Did you come here because your Azure DevOps (fka VSO/VSTS) Cordova build pipe task failed with "Current working directory is not a Cordova-based project"?

Resolved by creating the required (and missing) folder 'www\', with a powershell having script:

New-Item -ItemType directory -Path www\

Answer 4

If you are getting this error on Ionic2
This issue generally occur when we just clone / download app and try to add platform to it.

its very easy to resolve, then here are the steps-

just create a "www" directory in application root.

"./www"

can also do by this command-

mkdir www

now we can easily run following command -

ionic platform add android
or
ionic platform add ios

Hope it will help!!!

Answer 5

Yes, as QuickFix said, you need to be in a Cordova project before being able to use most of cordova Commands. If you are curious about what defines a Cordova project, this is what I found:

• Has a .cordova directory, with a config.json inside.
• Has a www directory, with a config.xml inside.
• Has a platforms directory.

With that in place you can use Cordoba commands without problem. If you need examples of those config files just run cordova create myapp.

Answer 6

1. run ionic serve
2. It will create www folder
3. Then run cordova prepare