Ionic-cli: Testing Ionic 4 - Cannot find type definition file for 'cordova'

[peterennis]

Description:

Steps to Reproduce:
Delete node-modules
Upgrade to 4.0.0-alpha.4
npm i

Output:

C:\Users\peter>cd C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu

C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu>npm i

> [email protected] install C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu\node_modules\node-sass
> node scripts/install.js

Cached binary found at C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\node-sass\4.9.0\win32-x64-57_binding.node

> [email protected] postinstall C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu\node_modules\node-sass
> node scripts/build.js

Binary found at C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu\node_modules\node-sass\vendor\win32-x64-57\binding.node
Testing binary
Binary is fine

> @angular/[email protected] postinstall C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu\node_modules\@angular\cli
> node ./bin/ng-update-message.js

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

added 1087 packages from 1271 contributors in 46.066s

C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu>ionic s
> ng serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8100

[INFO] Development server running!

       Local: http://localhost:8100
       External: http://192.168.1.67:8100
       DevApp: aemenu@8100 on Merry-Christmas

[INFO] Browser window opened to http://localhost:8100!

[ng] i ｢wdm｣: wait until bundle finished: /
[ng] Date: 2018-05-10T05:34:35.695Z
[ng] Hash: 742c44f0cc752f330449
[ng] Time: 9526ms
[ng] chunk {main} main.js, main.js.map (main) 1.9 kB [initial] [rendered]
[ng] chunk {polyfills} polyfills.js, polyfills.js.map (polyfills) 669 bytes [initial] [rendered]
[ng] chunk {runtime} runtime.js, runtime.js.map (runtime) 5.4 kB [entry] [rendered]
[ng] chunk {styles} styles.js, styles.js.map (styles) 20.1 kB [initial] [rendered]
[ng] chunk {vendor} vendor.js, vendor.js.map (vendor) 325 kB [initial] [rendered]
[ng]
[ng] ERROR in node_modules/@ionic-native/core/decorators/common.d.ts(1,23): error TS2688: Cannot find type definition file for 'cordova'.
[ng]
[ng] i ｢wdm｣: Failed to compile.

My ionic info:

C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu>ionic info
cli packages: (C:\Users\peter\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules)

   @ionic/cli-utils  : 2.0.0-rc.6
   ionic (Ionic CLI) : 4.0.0-rc.6

global packages:

   cordova (Cordova CLI) : 8.0.0

local packages:

   @angular-devkit/core       : 0.6.0
   @angular-devkit/schematics : 0.6.0
   @angular/cli               : 6.0.0
   @ionic/schematics-angular  : 1.0.0-rc.6
   Cordova Platforms          : none
   Ionic Framework            : @ionic/angular 4.0.0-alpha.4

System:

   NodeJS : v8.11.1
   npm    : 6.0.0
   OS     : Windows 10

Environment Variables:

   ANDROID_HOME : not set


C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu>

Other Information:

[imhoffd]

@peterennis Can you post the output of npm ls @types/cordova ?

[peterennis]

I will do it this evening when I am on that machine again.

[peterennis]

C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu>npm ls @types/cordova
[email protected] C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu
+-- @ionic-native/[email protected]
| `-- UNMET DEPENDENCY @types/cordova@latest
+-- @ionic-native/[email protected]
| `-- UNMET DEPENDENCY @types/cordova@latest
`-- @ionic-native/[email protected]
  `-- UNMET DEPENDENCY @types/cordova@latest

npm ERR! missing: @types/cordova@latest, required by @ionic-native/[email protected]
npm ERR! missing: @types/cordova@latest, required by @ionic-native/[email protected]
npm ERR! missing: @types/cordova@latest, required by @ionic-native/[email protected]

C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu>

[mpaland]

I get the same here after updating ionic-cli and the ionic-conference-app core-update branch to latest when running "ionic serve".
Cordova latest is installed. Haven't got time to look in the details, was not happening before the update.

[imhoffd]

Ionic Native requires the @types/cordova dependency, but for some reason, it's missing.

It appears to be an issue with the npm install. UNMET DEPENDENCY means a dependency isn't installed for some reason. Remedy the situation with npm install, or rm -rf node_modules package-lock.json && npm install.

[mpaland]

Deleting the node_modules folder and the package-lock.json and then a clean npm install fixed the problem.
Seems just to be some kind of minor update dependency problem. Nothing to worry about.
Thanx for pointing this out, @dwieeb .

[peterennis]

Recreate project:

C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu>npm ls @types/cordova
[email protected] C:\ae\adaept.com\aemenu
+-- @ionic-native/[email protected]
| `-- @types/[email protected]
+-- @ionic-native/[email protected]
| `-- @types/[email protected]  deduped
`-- @ionic-native/[email protected]
  `-- @types/[email protected]  deduped


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