Cannot find module 'cordova-lib'

Describe the bug Hi Dave,

I followed one of your last post (https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase/issues/1081#issuecomment-503135862) to solve my issue regarding Android, which worked like charm.

Now I’m trying to build my iOS platform but I’m facing the following error.

(in a frech new platform):

ionic cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-plugin-firebase.git --save

which result in:

- /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:623:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:527:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:681:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at Object.getAppName (/Users/myProject/plugins/cordova-plugin-firebase/scripts/lib/utilities.js:27:24)
    at Object.getXcodeProjectPath (/Users/myProject/plugins/cordova-plugin-firebase/scripts/ios/helper.js:22:29)
    at module.exports (/Users/myProject/plugins/cordova-plugin-firebase/scripts/ios/after_plugin_install.js:7:35)
    at runScriptViaModuleLoader (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/hooks/HooksRunner.js:181:32)
    at runScript (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/hooks/HooksRunner.js:157:16)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/hooks/HooksRunner.js:125:20
Cannot find module 'cordova-lib'

I double checked, Cordova is in /usr/local and inside the lib I’ve got Cordova-lib in its node_modules

Honestly not sure if it’s a bug or a support request, I hope you don’t mind too much opening an issue. I just ask my self if the issue would not be NodeJs v12 or Cordova v9 related maybe?

Best regards and thx in advance for any hints. If it’s too obvious of course close the issue without comment, I would not mind.

[dpa99c]

I’ve been fiddling with this plugin today to try to fix it to work with cordova@9 which means replacing the requireCordovaModule() calls in the hook scripts with straight up require().

Since cordova-lib is a dependency of cordova it should be installed globally and therefore available without explicitly pinning it as a dependency of the plugin (I didn’t want to do this in case it caused a version conflict with the globally installed version of cordova).

That seems to have worked OK in my production projects, but that might be because something else has pulling in cordova-lib locally. So I’ll re-run my test case with this plugin in isolation to see if I can repro your error. If so, I guess I’ll need to add an explicit dependency on cordova-lib to this fork.

[dpa99c]

@dpa99c thx! the Android platform works for me too. I face problems with the iOS one

Doh! Wrong platform! 😬 Will try iOS…