Update cordova plugins in one command

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I am wondering is there an easier way to update cordova plugin   I googled  found a hook    year 2013   but this is not 100  what I want   I know I can do this by two steps  rm  then add but I am looking for a better  official  way to help me which plugins have newer version  and I can update ALL of them in one command   just like  npm update   for example     cordova plugin list    list all installed plugins  their dependencies  and newer versions       cordova plugin update    update all of them for me      if there is no official way  is there some other helper  yo

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I too would LOVE something like this - plugin management with the PhoneGap/Cordova CLI is so annoying. This blog post here may be a start to something like this - but I'm not quite sure A) how to leverage it yet or B) how well it would work.

http://nocurve.com/cordova-update-all-plugins-in-project

My initial attempt at running the entire script right in the terminal command line did create an output of text with add/remove plugin commands ... but they didn't actually execute they just echoed into the terminal. I've reached out to the author hoping they will explain a bit more.

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Here s a bash script I use  works on OSX 10 11 3      bin bash  PLUGINS   cordova plugin list   awk   print  1     for PLUGIN in  PLUGINS  do     cordova plugin rm  PLUGIN --save  amp  amp  cordova plugin add  PLUGIN --save done   This may help if there are conflicts  per shan s comment  The difference is the addition of the --force flag when removing      bin bash  PLUGINS   cordova plugin list   awk   print  1     for PLUGIN in  PLUGINS  do     cordova plugin rm  PLUGIN --force --save  amp  amp  cordova plugin add  PLUGIN --save done

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cordova-check-plugins --update auto --force   use the command line

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You don t need remove  just add again   cordova plugin add https   github com apache cordova-plugin-camera

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This is my Windows Batch version for update all plugins in one command  How to use   From command line  in the same folder of project  run   c   gt  batchNameFile   or  c   gt  batchNameFile autoupdate   Where  batchNameFile  is the name of  BAT file  with the script below   For only test   first exmple   or to force every update avaiable   2nd example     echo off  cls  set pluginListFile update plugin list  if exist  pluginListFile  del  pluginListFile   Echo  Reading installed Plugins  Call cordova plugins  gt   pluginListFile  echo   for  F  tokens 1 2 delims      a in    pluginListFile    do      Echo  Checking online version for   a      for  F  delims     I in    npm info   a version    do        Echo  Local     b       Echo  Online    I       if   b LSS   I Call  toUpdate   a   1       cont      echo          if exist  pluginListFile  del  pluginListFile   Exit  B   toUpdate Echo  Need Update    if    2      autoupdate  Call  DoUpdate   1 goto cont   DoUpdate Echo  Removing Plugin  Call cordova plugin rm   1 Echo  Adding Plugin  Call cordova plugin add   1 goto cont   This batch was only tested in Windows 10

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You can t update it  What you can do is uninstall the cordova plugin and add it again   cordova plugin rm https   github com apache cordova-plugin-camera --save cordova plugin add https   github com apache cordova-plugin-camera --save

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If you install the third party package   npm i cordova-check-plugins   You can then run a simple command of  cordova-check-plugins --update auto --force   Keep in mind forcing anything always comes with potential risks of breaking changes   As other answers have stated  the connecting NPM packages that manage these plugins also require a consequent update when updating the plugins  so now you can check them with   npm outdated   And then sweeping update them with  npm update   Now tentatively serve your app again and check all of the things that have potentially gone awry from breaking changes  The joy of software development

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npm update -f its working form me  npm update -f  it will update all plugins and cli   cordova-sqlite-storage 2 3 0 cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing 5 3 2 onesignal-cordova-plugin 2 3 3  ionic-native device 4 6 0  ionic-native screen-orientation 4 6 0  ionic-native onesignal 4 6 0  ionic-native status-bar 4 6 0  ionic-native splash-screen 4 6 0  ionic-native core 4 6 0  ionic-native social-sharing 4 6 0  angular cli 1 7 3 cordova-plugin-splashscreen 5 0 3-dev added 322 packages  removed 256 packages  updated 91 packages and moved 8 packages in 350 86s

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ionic state is deprecated as on ionic 3 7 0  If you happen to be using ionic and the ionic cli you can run   ionic state reset   As long as all your plugin information was saved in your package json earlier  this will essentially perform an rm add for all your plugins  Just note that this will also rm add your platforms as well  but that shouldn t matter   This is also nice for when you ignore your plugin folders from your repo  and want to setup the project on another machine   Obviously this doesn t directly answer the question  but many people are currently using both  and will end up here

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Found another answer from the npmjs org  https   www npmjs com package cordova-plugin-update  Basically its installing the tool into your project   npm install -g cordova-plugin-update   when done you then have to run the command   cordova-plugin-update   and it will prompt you to update if ever a newer version of a plugin is available

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The easiest way would be to delete the plugins folder   Run this command  cordova prepare But  before you run it  you can check each plugin s version that you think would work for your build on Cordova s plugin repository website  and then you should modify the config xml file  manually   Use upper carrots      in the version field of the universal modeling language file   config   to indicate that you want the specified plugin to update to the latest version in the future  the next time you run the command

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you cannot update  but i wrote a batch file that removes my plugins and install again so in this case my all plugins are updated automatically  hope this solves your problem   echo off for   a in    com ionic keyboard   com phonegap plugins PushPlugin   cordova-instagram-plugin   cordova-plugin-camera   cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview   cordova-plugin-file   cordova-plugin-file-transfer     do call cordova plugin rm   a   for   b in    com ionic keyboard   com phonegap plugins PushPlugin   cordova-instagram-plugin   cordova-plugin-camera   cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview   cordova-plugin-file   cordova-plugin-file-transfer      do call cordova plugin add   b

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I got tired of manually checking for plugin updates so created a tool to do it for me  https   github com dpa99c cordova-check-plugins  Install it globally     npm install -g cordova-check-plugins   Then run from the root of your Cordova project  You can optionally update outdated plugins interactively or automatically  e g     cordova-check-plugins --update auto

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Go to your cordova project directory then write  npm outdated   npm will be display your outdated plugins  if any plugin outdated then write this command  npm update

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