Invalid package.json in Custom cordova plugin

Question

I am trying to develop a custom plugin in cordova that give me location at every specified interval. Problem is that I don't have any package.json file in this plugin directory.

When I am trying to add this plugin into our cordova project i am getting Invalid package.json error.

Please help me I am new in cordova. What i have to do to resolve this error.

I am using this command to add the plugin in project

cordova plugin add ../loccation_plugin/LocationPlugin/

Answer 1

I had same issue while adding my custom plugin to project. I am using plugman tool to create custom plugin and you may most probably be using plugman tool too.

If that is the case then execute following command to generate valid package.json:

plugman createpackagejson "path of your plugin"

This will ask you some basic question about plugin and will generate package.json file based on it.

Answer 2

I meet the same 'pkg is not defined' problem, then I try to use npm init to create package.json file and succeed.

Answer 3

I had the same issue, but used this npm init instead, press Enter and fill in the data as asked on the cmd