Ionic platform add 'platform' not working today?

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Hi there,

Anyone else struggling with this today? I can’t seem to be able to add any platform to my app… I ran both:

ionic cordova platform add ios

and

ionic cordova platform add android

But I get this error on both occasions:

> cordova platform add android --save
✖ Running command - failed!
[ERROR] Exception: Error: Invalid or unexpected token

ionic info:

@ionic/cli-utils  : 1.9.2
    ionic (Ionic CLI) : 3.9.2

global packages:

    Cordova CLI : 7.0.1

local packages:

    @ionic/app-scripts : 2.1.3
    Cordova Platforms  : none
    Ionic Framework    : ionic-angular 3.6.0

System:

    ios-deploy : 1.9.2
    Node       : v6.11.3
    npm        : 3.10.10
    OS         : macOS Sierra
    Xcode      : Xcode 8.3.3 Build version 8E3004b```
2

Uh, that is a strange one. Can you run the same command with --verbose and -- -d added at the end and post the complete output if it is different from what you already have?

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[DEBUG] CLI flags: { interactive: true, confirm: false }
[DEBUG] { cwd: '/Users/user/Documents/folder/app', local: true, binPath:
        '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/bin/ionic', libPath:
        '/Users/user/Documents/folder/app/node_modules/ionic/dist/index.js' }
[DEBUG] New daemon pid: 1399
> cordova platform add ios --save
✖ Running command - failed!
[ERROR] Exception: Error: Invalid or unexpected token
4

Which one of the both commands is this the output for?

Try cordova platform add ios -d please.

5

Hi there! Sorry, I accidentally ran it with all the extra bits:

ionic cordova platform add android --verbose and -- -d

ok, so when I run with cordova platform add android --verbose I get:

Error: Invalid or unexpected token

when I run with cordova platform add ios --d I get:

Error: Invalid or unexpected token

when I run with ionic cordova platform add android – -d I get:

> cordova platform add android --save
✖ Running command - failed!
[ERROR] Exception: Error: Invalid or unexpected token
6

No additional output? Strange.

Look at your config.xml, is it a valid file?
What is in your /platforms folder?

7

Yep, everything looks dandy in my config.xml file…

My platforms folder has:

{}

I currently don’t have any platforms installed… I had, but I removed them, and when I tried re-installing them that’s when I started facing this problem.

8

Delete the whole folder.

Problem is that there is no real output what is having an unexpected token…

9

Sometimes this idiom can be helpful narrowing down at least the last file to be opened before something pukes:

$ strace -eopen -f ionic whatever
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Hi there…
Deleted the platforms folder and still the same error when trying to add platforms:

> cordova platform add android --save
✖ Running command - failed!
[ERROR] Exception: Error: Invalid or unexpected token
11

So its not that. Can you replace your config.xml with a default one?
Or try the same command with a new project created with ionic start?

12

Cool, thanks, will do… If I encounter additional issues I’ll let you know. thanks.