Ionic Pro, Monitoring: Error: The cordova-plugin-ionic plugin is not installed

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Hi. I’m getting this error in console by running ionic serve -scb

the cordova-plugin-ionic plugin is not installed. Install it for better device information for runtime errors.

Screenshot here: http://nimb.ws/DNu8o2

I guess it’s because it’s not supported by the browser (like almost all of other plugins) but I want to be sure, specially because I don’t like seeing that every time my app restarts.

Thanks!

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I’m also getting the same error when running in Chrome. Is this more a warning or actually a problem?

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How are you running the project?

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$ ionic serve -scb

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Then this is an ignorable error - native plugins are never available in ionic serve.
For web support of monitoring I can’t say anything, you have to talk to the Ionic team about that.

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I have the same issue and i have run it by typing command

ionic cordova run android

after the app run mobile successfully, the inspect element of google chrome give me this error

the cordova-plugin-ionic plugin is not installed. Install it for better device information for runtime errors.

can anyone help me?

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Do you have the plugin installed? If so, which command did you execute?

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@Sujan12 thanks for replying,
but which plugin you say?
the plugin that is shown in error?

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Yes, of course. We should know if you actually have the plugin installed and the error message is wrong or not and the error message is correct.

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I have not run any command for installing the plugin,
and even i don’t understand what plugin this error wants to install

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It says so right in the error message: cordova-plugin-ionic
Did you add any Ionic Pro functionality? Error monitoring for example?

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yes, of course
i have done it in my app

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Then you also installed that plugin. Or didn’t you follow the instructions?

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I have followed all instructions. that are written in the docs.
but i haven’t install plugin yet

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Take it easy guys. It’s just a Cordova plugin error in dev mode, running the local server. It works as expected in prod, Ie. when Cordova is available and it’s running in emulator/device. I think this should be more a warning than an error, just like other plugins do.

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If you followed all instructions, you also installed the plugin: Capacitor SDK Setup - Appflow

As @imaatLuciano wrote, in ionic serve this output is expected.

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Thank you a lot for the precious answer

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@Sujan12 This quote is absolutely right though. It is confusing to see a ‘red’ error while debugging with ionic serve, because red is supposed to mean something needs to be fixed.

It would make more sense to show a warning instead of an error. Perhaps similar to the following example warnings that can appear during ionic serve:

Native: tried calling StatusBar.styleLightContent, but Cordova is not available. Make sure to include cordova.js or run in a device/simulator
Native: tried calling Splashscreen.hide, but Cordova is not available. Make sure to include cordova.js or run in a device/simulator

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Maybe already be taken care of: https://github.com/ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic/issues/6
If not, open a new issue on that repo or even a Pull Request that changes this behaviour.

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Thanks for the pointer! I have commented over there, we’ll see where it goes.