# IonicNativePlugin missing from @ionic-native/core

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019>\
**Category:** ionic-v3\
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019 "2017-04-27T07:05:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![dbertels](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/dbertels/32/96639_2.png) [@dbertels](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/dbertels)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019/1 "2017-04-27T07:05:56Z")

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I have an ionic 3 app that needs access to the device’s serial number.  
The Device plugin is already installed in the plugins folder, so I just had to do

> npm install --save @ionic-native/device

I then imported it into app.module.ts and declared it in the @ngModule provider array as well.

But doing an `ionic serve` or `build android` gives me the following error:

> Module ‘“…/node\_modules/@ionic-native/core/index”’ has no exported member ‘IonicNativePlugin’.

How do I go about solving this?

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**Author:** ![dariusespinoantonio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dariusespinoantonio](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/dariusespinoantonio)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019/2 "2017-04-27T07:35:07Z")

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i have also encounter this as i use media capture plugin, any solution?

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**Author:** ![Codelives](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/codelives/32/108311_2.png) [@Codelives](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Codelives)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019/3 "2017-04-27T07:47:40Z")

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> IonicNativePlugin was added in newer version of ionic-native/core, so I had to uninstall this one and install the newest one which is 3.6.1, and now plugin got exported and everything works fine.

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43650747/module-has-no-exported-member-ionicnativeplugin-ionic2](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43650747/module-has-no-exported-member-ionicnativeplugin-ionic2)

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**Author:** ![dariusespinoantonio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@dariusespinoantonio](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/dariusespinoantonio)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019/4 "2017-04-27T07:51:18Z")

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yes i saw the updates, hehe  
i run _ionic outdated_ then _ionic update_ 🙂  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/original/3X/2/3/23bc395d0c9f9606dd959a9642506752babcabc2.png)

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**Author:** ![dbertels](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/dbertels/32/96639_2.png) [@dbertels](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/dbertels)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019/5 "2017-04-27T09:13:12Z")

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Thanks Codelives- this saved me a lot of time. I just did a

> npm uninstall -–save @ionic-native/core  
> npm install –-save @ionic-native/core@latest

and it works on all platforms now

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**Author:** ![Dhaval\_75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Dhaval\_75](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Dhaval_75)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019/6 "2017-05-15T13:41:59Z")

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This doesn’t work in desktop on chrome ?

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**Author:** ![caparkin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/caparkin/32/114327_2.png) [@caparkin](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/caparkin)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionicnativeplugin-missing-from-ionic-native-core/88019/7 "2017-10-20T10:49:27Z")

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Hi guys. I’ve been stuck with this for quite some time. I followed the instructions but it just did not work, then I read another related article where a person mentioned to close terminal/cmd and re-open after it was run. I tried this and it worked. Just a missing step that might help someone.