Module not found. Can't resolve 'cordova-plugin-ble-central'. (TS)

[fudom]

I get an error during build when

import 'cordova-plugin-ble-central';

No error in VSCode. But the Angular build throws:

Error: Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'cordova-plugin-ble-central'

Has anyone tested this? I'm not sure what's wrong in my tsconfig.json. Great that types are present. But I would add this to the docs or fix that. It seems that the types.d.ts extends window with ble. It's not a module. Fine, but why this error? The package.json looks ok. I'm currently exhausted and appreciate any hint.

[peitschie]

Hi @fudom

Cordova plugins are not directly included via ES6 imports however. The javascript itself is automatically packed in via the cordova CLI tool, so attempting to directly include like this would likely just create a duplicate import and possibly some plugin confusion.

I generally reference these via triple-slash directives:

/// <reference types="cordova-plugin-ble-central" />

You can also add these to the types collection in your tsconfig.json instead if you prefer: https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#types

[peitschie]

Some related discussion at https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/issues/400#issuecomment-648731239

[fudom]

Curiously, adding it to types didn’t work in my repo. But the reference-comment works. Not my preferred solution, but it's fine since I only need it in one file. Thanks 👍