Ionic Server doesn’t shutdown gracefully using Cordova

Description: I have to build an ionic cordova app. So I prepared my macOS with all needed utilities. First I have to create the app on the browser platform. Therefore I start the process with “ionic cordova run browser”. After testing I just want to shutdown the server with crtl+c, but even a node process will be left. So every time I would have to kill the process using the command line tool “kill”. It isn’t really comfortable.

I found out if I run only the command “cordova run browser” without an ionic build the server is shutting down correctly. The same thing, if I run “ionic serve” without using cordova

My ionic info:

cli packages: (/usr/local/lib/node_modules)
@ionic/cli-utils : 1.19.2
ionic (Ionic CLI) : 3.20.0

global packages:
cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.0.0

local packages:
@ionic/app-scripts : 3.1.8
Cordova Platforms : browser 5.0.3
Ionic Framework : ionic-angular 3.9.2

System:
ios-deploy : 1.9.1
Node : v8.10.0
npm : 5.6.0
OS : macOS High Sierra
Xcode : Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b

Environment Variables:
ANDROID_HOME : not set

Misc:
backend : legacy

[marxide]

Thanks @dwieeb, that is exactly what I’m looking for. I have no intention of deploying a browser target (yet) so I was only using the browser platform to get around the Cordova plugin issue. I would much prefer to use ionic serve as you describe.

I look forward to trying it out when available.

[imhoffd]

Closing in favor of https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/issues/3043, please subscribe to it for updates.