Ionic-cli: [V3] Need to manually add @ionic/cli-plugins-core to project on Windows

[jsayol]

CLI version: 3.0.0-alpha.106
App-scripts version: 1.1.2

Short description of the problem:

When running ionic serve on Linux I get a nice prompt telling me the @ionic/cli-plugin-core plugin is missing and offering to install it. If I do the same on a Windows machine I just get an npm error telling me that said package couldn't be found:

C:\path\to\project>ionic serve
Dependency missing for @ionic/cli-plugin-core:

  [ERROR]: Cannot find module 'C:\path\to\project\node_modules\@ionic\cli-plugin-core'

What behavior are you expecting?

Same as on Linux.
If for any reason that's not possible, then maybe a more explicit error message giving instructions on how to proceed. For example, the same one you get if you answer "no" to the prompt on Linux:

$ ionic serve
? This command's plugin @ionic/cli-plugin-core is not installed would you like to install it and continue? No
[ERROR] This plugin is not currently installed. Please execute the following to install it.

            npm install --save-dev @ionic/cli-plugin-core@canary

Steps to reproduce:

1. Be on Windows
2. npm -g i [email protected]
3. ionic serve

Post the output of ionic info below please
Win:

  Your system information:

    Cordova CLI: 6.4.0
    Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.1
    Ionic CLI Version: 3.0.0-alpha.106
    ios-deploy version: Not installed
    ios-sim version: Not installed
    OS: Windows 10
    Node Version: v7.3.0
    Xcode version: Not installed

Linux:

  Your system information:

    Cordova CLI: 6.5.0 
    Ionic Framework Version: 2.0.1
    Ionic CLI Version: 3.0.0-alpha.106
    ios-deploy version: Not installed
    ios-sim version: Not installed
    OS: Linux 4.9
    Node Version: v7.5.0
    Xcode version: Not installed

[jsayol]

As a side note, what's the reason of having to install a CLI plugin on the project itself instead of globally?

[jsayol]

As a second side note, the rewrite of the CLI rocks! I've been trying it out and, overall, everything works fine. Great job 👌

[jthoms1]

In future versions we have removed cli-plugin-core and integrated it into the base CLI install. This will be released in beta3. Closing this for now.