I didn't reply when I saw this initially - but this is actually really cool particularly if you're trying out bug fixes. Visual Studio tracks edits and automatically reinstalls plugins for this reason (which you can do if you have a project system watching edits).
-Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Michal Mocny [mailto:mmo...@google.com] Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 2:14 PM To: dev Subject: FYI: Created a plugin to help with local plugin development Took the opportunity to use our new plugin hooks and created a plugin to automate a tedious task I've been doing a lot of recently: plugin re-installation. https://github.com/mmocny/cordova-plugin-plugin-auto-upgrade As per the README: ================ This plugin with automatically upgrade (re-install) a set of plugins (specified by you) before every cordova prepare. This is useful if you are doing plugin development and would like to automatically synchronize your app with any changes made to your plugin. Install the plugin: cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.labs.pluginAutoUpgrade At root of your app, create a pluginAutoUpgrade.json file, which looks like: { "PLUGIN_ID": "PLUGIN_INSTALL_PATH", "PLUGIN_ID2": "PLUGIN_INSTALL_PATH" } ================ This is useful if you are making changes to a plugin inside the plugin's directory structure. For more meaty plugin work, you are possibly better off making native changes inside platforms/ and js changes inside plugins/, and being very careful to not clobber your work (or use the build/run scripts directly to skip prepare entirely). I'm considering improving that workflow as well. For now, I've found this plugin useful for minor plugin work. Sharing in case you do, too. -Michal
