I'm trying to compile a phonegap based app using different development machines - think multiple developers with their own machines and/or different machines to build different platforms.
The application was first compiled on PC for android which works ok, but when I try compile on Mac for ios, some of the app functionality is missing. I can confirm that other applications are able to be built on the same Mac for ios, so it's not an xcode related issue.
My .gitignore includes things like node_modules/, www/, platforms/, app/lib and plugins/ and when I run npm install node_modules gets populated, and when I run bower install app/lib/ gets populated and so on.
As per this post I then proceed with manually creating directories www/, platforms/ and plugins/ which then allows me to run grunt platform:add:ios. I can then emulate and/or deploy successfully, but when testing, functionality in the app is missing.
The problem seems to be that the plugins/ folder doesn't get populated. I can manually run cordova plugin add <plugin> for each cordova plugin and when building and deploying the missing functionality shows up but the process seems a bit inefficient and prone to error if someone forgets to add a plugin.
Various guides have suggested running cordova prepare ios but this doesn't seem to do much.
This blog post by Josh Bavari suggests some hacking around to automate the process, and this post talks about something similar but they're half a year old now.
Am I missing something obvious here, or is the manual cordova plugin add process a normal part of dev workflow? Cheers.
