Ionic v3 Beta CLI : ionic cordova platform --help` throws an error

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Running ionic cordova platform --help command throws below error after giving out the available commands.

Add or remove a platform target for building an Ionic app

Usage
  $ ionic cordova platform [action] [platform]

Inputs
  action ................... add, remove, or update a platform; list all project platforms
  platform ................. The platform that you would like to add (e.g. ios, android)

Options
  --noresources, -r ........ Do not add default Ionic icons and splash screen resources (corres

ponds to add)
–nosave, -e … Do not update the config.xml (corresponds to add, remove, update)

Examples
  $ ionic cordova platform add android

TypeError: Cannot read property ‘private’ of undefined
at inputs.filter (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/@ionic/cli-utils/dist/lib/comm
and/command.js:91:31)
at Array.filter (native)
at HelpCommand.getCleanInputsForTelemetry (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/@ioni
c/cli-utils/dist/lib/command/command.js:90:18)
at HelpCommand. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/@ionic/cli-utils/dis
t/lib/command/command.js:63:48)
at Generator.next ()
at fulfilled (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/@ionic/cli-utils/dist/lib/command/
command.js:4:58)

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You have to type something like this ionic cordova:build --help or ionic cordova: --help

So in your case you have to type ionic cordova:platform --help

3

Thanks for the reply. Same error with ionic cordova:platform --help too. Could be a bug in ionic v3 cli?

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Do you only have problems with the --help command or can’t run any CLI commands?
Have you added the needed devdependencies in your package.json?

npm install --save-dev @ionic/cli-build-ionic-angular@beta @ionic/cli-plugin-cordova@beta
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Which beta are you on? If you are on the newest, beta7, I have the same errors and don’t think I made anything wrong. Here are some Github issues, +1 votes welcome:

On the error messages in help:

And on the generally not working cordova commands for me.

@LoLStats: Same errors on the :-style commands (which seems to be have changed back to the old style commands in beta7)

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Okay than this is an error with the latest beta release. I’m still on release 3@Beta5

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Issue is with only the --help command. I’m able to use the other platform specific commands. Thanks.

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The Github issue for this was fixed and closed, so this error should be gone in beta8 (when it is released).

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Thank you for the update.