Can the plugins folder be deprecated?

[Ryan Haney <ry...@appology.net>]

I'm @prodrammer on GH.

I made some comments on https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/issues/709 regarding a build error that manifested due to a "dirty" plugins folder. After nuking the plugins folder (via the script I include below), I was able to get the platform code built....but this raises the issue of why it happened in the first place.

@breautek on GH mentioned possibly getting rid of the plugins folder. Maybe?

I created this reset script that nukes node_modules, platforms (and now plugins) folders. When I run into build issues, this sometimes resolves things. I question why I have to do this as well...but it allows me to move forward.
```
ionic cordova platform rm ios
ionic cordova platform rm android
rm -rf node_modules
rm -rf plugins
npm i
ionic cordova platform add ios
ionic cordova platform add android
```

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Re: Can the plugins folder be deprecated?

[Chris Brody <ch...@gmail.com>]

I would favor discussing this idea in
https://github.com/apache/cordova/issues or
https://github.com/apache/cordova-discuss/issues

I am thinking it would be really nice if Cordova would use the Cordova
plugin packages from node_modules rather than plugins in the future. I
think this would be more similar to how Capacitor and React Native work.

I think it would be good to get this documented in cordova-docs for now.

Unfortunately the maintainers seem to be pretty overloaded at this point.


On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 7:26 PM Ryan Haney <ry...@appology.net> wrote:

> I'm @prodrammer on GH.
>
> I made some comments on
> https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/issues/709
> regarding a build error that manifested due to a "dirty" plugins folder.
> After nuking the plugins folder (via the script I include below), I was
> able to get the platform code built....but this raises the issue of why it
> happened in the first place.
>
> @breautek on GH mentioned possibly getting rid of the plugins folder.
> Maybe?
>
> I created this reset script that nukes node_modules, platforms (and now
> plugins) folders. When I run into build issues, this sometimes resolves
> things. I question why I have to do this as well...but it allows me to move
> forward.
> ```
> ionic cordova platform rm ios
> ionic cordova platform rm android
> rm -rf node_modules
> rm -rf plugins
> npm i
> ionic cordova platform add ios
> ionic cordova platform add android
> ```
>
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