This is old but I was searching and this one is without answer. If you have plugin that you've created, you can add directory instead of url. So if you have template on github that need to be modified you need clone it, make changes, and add using:
cordova plugin add /path/to/plugin --nofetch
see docs for cordova cli
I think that you will need to execute this command each time you make changes and before you do you need to remove the plugin:
cordova plugin remove com.example.plugin.name
You can speed things up if you create simple node script that will execute this when file changes:
var watch = require('watch');
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
if (process.argv.length == 4) {
var name = process.argv[2]
var path = process.argv[3];
watch.watchTree(path, function() {
var cmd = 'cordova plugin remove ' + name +
' && cordova plugin add ' + path + ' --nofetch';
console.log(cmd);
exec(cmd, function (error, stdout, stderr) {
if (error !== null) {
console.log('exec error: ' + error);
} else {
console.log('done');
}
});
});
} else {
console.log('usage: ' + process.argv[1] + ' [NAME] [PATH]');
}
then you can save is as plugin.js and run (from your cordova application path):
node plugin.js com.example.plugin.name /path/to/plugin
it will work when you put more then one plugin. Before you run it you need to execute:
npm install -g watch
or:
npm install --save-dev watch
cordova application have package.json file so this dependency will be save there.
