Why are there two Cordova www folders?

Question

I'm a beginner in PhoneGap and I'm trying to understand something about the www folders. I created a project with only an iOS platform.

I saw that there are two www folders:

• www in the root folder of the project
• www in the platform/ios/ folder

How do I use both of them? Am I supposed to only use only one of them?
What about sharing the HTML/JS/CSS code with other platforms?

Answer 1

• The www folder in the root folder of the project contains the global files for all platforms. This is the folder that you should edit.

• The www folder in platforms/ios is solely for the iOS platform. This folder is built from the global www folder when you run cordova build. You should not edit this folder directly - if you wish to customise a specific platform, see the Customise Each Platform section of the Cordova CLI documentation.

If you had more platforms (cordova platform add <platform>), then those platforms would also have their www folders built from the global www folder when you run cordova build [platform].