Announcing Apache Cordova Retirement

[IllusionVK]

I'm wondering if this https://devblogs.microsoft.com/appcenter/announcing-apache-cordova-retirement/ means that this plugin will now not work ?

I'm expecting the answer to to be yes based on what I have read... I have setup https://github.com/IllusionVK/ReplaceAppCenter to help discuss the potential of working with a self hosted solution... All welcome to add issues to that repo to allow multiple people to comment and discuss!

[o-alexandrov]

Please take a look at the closed issues in this repo

[CricketLaChica]

@IllusionVK I want to make sure you saw the comment above, and wanted to point this comment specifically. I was able to still use this capacitor-codepush plugin for my Ionic+Capacitor iOS app to do code push updates simply by selecting React Native as the CodePush project type, even though it's not. You'd still be able to manually select the deploy directory anyway.

[NgYueHong]

@CricketLaChica I don't get it. Do you mean we can still continue to use the codepush on our ionic project just by create the codepush project to be react native?

[CricketLaChica]

@NgYueHong Yes! I am using Ionic+Capacitor. Give it a shot. 👍

[bazuka5801]

@CricketLaChica Nice try, but look at these lines of code:
https://github.com/microsoft/appcenter-cli/blob/f4f9b8f5d2dd0d3988977ed6efa412e3320ff141/src/commands/codepush/lib/codepush-release-command-base.ts#L114-L123

appcenter-cli will zip www to CodePush folder ignoring -c ios/app/app/public argument

I modified this cli (ignoring the lines above), you can install it with yarn global add @bazumax/appcenter-cli (after removing the original appcenter-cli)

[NgYueHong]

@CricketLaChica May I know how do you push the code to the server? I have tried and I get the error:

D:\wamp64\www\app-test-2022\ionic-starter-app>appcenter codepush release-react -a MyProject/test-ionic-starter-2022-android -d Staging
Error: The project in the CWD is not a React Native project.

D:\wamp64\www\app-test-2022\ionic-starter-app>appcenter codepush release-cordova -a MyProject/test-ionic-starter-2022-android -d Staging 
Error: Platform must be "Cordova".

Can you please show me how you do it? Thank you.