Can't sync iOS project after update to Capacitor 3

Capacitor
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Problem

We have an Ionic Angular Monorepo for building mobile Apps. After updating to Capacitor 3, I always get these errors, when I try to use npx cap sync ios:

Copying web assets from www to ios/App/public in 1.23s

Copying native bridge: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat ‘/Users/neocosmo/Workspaces/piipe-app-mono/node_modules/@capacitor/core/native-bridge.js’

copy: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat ‘/Users/neocosmo/Workspaces/piipe-app-mono/node_modules/@capacitor/core/native-bridge.js’
[error] [Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat ‘/Users/neocosmo/Workspaces/piipe-app-mono/node_modules/@capacitor/core/native-bridge.js’] {
errno: -2,
code: ‘ENOENT’,
syscall: ‘lstat’,
path: ‘/Users/neocosmo/Workspaces/piipe-app-mono/node_modules/@capacitor/core/native-bridge.js’
}:heavy_check_mark: Updating iOS plugins in 131.68ms

Updating iOS plugins in 131.68ms
Found 11 Capacitor plugins for ios:
@capacitor/app (1.1.1)
@capacitor/browser (1.0.7)
@capacitor/camera (1.3.1)
@capacitor/filesystem (1.1.0)
@capacitor/haptics (1.1.4)
@capacitor/keyboard (1.2.2)
@capacitor/local-notifications (1.1.0)
@capacitor/share (1.1.2)
@capacitor/splash-screen (1.2.2)
@capacitor/status-bar (1.0.8)
@capacitor/storage (1.2.5)

Found 6 Cordova plugins for ios
cordova-plugin-badge (0.8.8)
cordova-plugin-file (6.0.2)
cordova-plugin-file-opener2 (3.0.5)
cordova-plugin-streaming-media (2.3.0)
cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing (6.0.3)
es6-promise-plugin (4.2.2)

Updating iOS native dependencies with “pod install” (may take several minutes)[fatal] TypeError: Cannot read property ‘ios’ of undefined
at getLinkerFlags (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/ios/update.js:252:30)

at generateCordovaPodspec (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/ios/update.js:245:38)

[fatal] TypeError: Cannot read property ‘ios’ of undefined
at getLinkerFlags (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/ios/update.js:252:30)

at generateCordovaPodspec (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@capacitor/cli/dist/ios/update.js:245:38)

:heavy_multiplication_x: Updating iOS native dependencies with “pod install” (may take several minutes):
:heavy_multiplication_x: update ios:
[error] Analyzing dependencies
[!] No podspec found for CordovaPlugins in ../capacitor-cordova-ios-plugins

Context

I have the newest versions of @capacitor/core, @capacitor/ios, @capacitor/android installed and have also tried several things without success like pod deintegrate and pod install afterwards, removing the ios folder and recreating it via npx ionic cap run ios --project=my-project, deleting and reinstalling node_modules, …

Nothing worked, most of my tries just straight up created more problems.

2

What monorepo tool are you using? I wonder if your monorepo tool is hoisting that node_modules folder to a higher directory so the CLI isn’t finding it

3

No special tool, just used the --project flag. All apps access the node_modules of the mono repo via the "file:../path/to/parent/node-modules" logic in the apps package.json.