Phonegap Create

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when I cd into the proj dir in the Terminal and then I type:

"phonegap create"

It just gives me:

Description:

  Creates a new application at the provided path.

  The application name and package ID can also be customized.
  These values are set in the app manifest (config.xml) and are used when
  creating a native project (platforms/<platform>/).

  The application can be created from an existing template as well. You can
  use any template that is published on npm, in your local file path, or available
  from a git URL. PhoneGap also recommends a few popular templates and provides
  shortened names for each. You can list the recommended templates with the
  `template list` command.

  The [config] option allows you to pass a JSON string, which will be injected
  into `<path>/.cordova/config.json`.

Options:

  --name, -n <name>                        application name (default: "Hello World")
  --id, -i <package>                       package name (default: "com.phonegap.hello-world")
  --copy-from, -src <path>                 create project using a copy of an existing project
  --link-to <path>                         symlink/shortcut to the www assets without copying
  --template <npm package|path|git url>    create app using template found on npm,
                                           your local path, or a git URL.

Examples:

  $ phonegap create path/to/my-app
  $ phonegap create path/to/my-app "com.example.app" "My App" 
  $ phonegap create path/to/my-app --id "com.example.app" --name "My App" 
  $ phonegap create path/to/my-app --copy-from ../my-other-app
  $ phonegap create path/to/my-app --template hello-world
  $ phonegap create path/to/my-app --template phonegap-template-hello-world

Also See:

  $ phonegap help template
  $ phonegap help template list

Instead of actually creating the project? This worked fine before but now it just gives me a description?!

You have tagged this as PhoneGap Build. This is not a question about PGB. Please update your tags. — Subjective Effect, Oct 28 '16 at 12:34
I'm a PhoneGap Build user so cannot answer your PhoneGap CLI questions I'm afraid. Change your tags and someone who knows about PhoneGap CLI may see it and help you. — Subjective Effect, Oct 28 '16 at 12:47
The documentation suggests using `phonegap create path/to/my-app`. Have you tried passing a path as 2nd argument ? — Aserre, Oct 28 '16 at 13:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '16 at 13:33

It looks like the terminal window might have cut off the first line of the phonegap create output, which is the usage line:

Usage: phonegap create [options] <path> [id [name [config]]]

From this, it looks like the <path> is required. Which is why you were seeing the description help text instead of a project getting created.

I honestly don't remember if the CLI for the phonegap command has changed recently or not. It's just not one of those commands that's used all that often (build and run, on the other hand...). I just get the syntax correct enough to start the project and start customizing the sample code from there. :-)

Phonegap Create

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