Package.json is being modified after cordova build android

[distante]

Description:
I work in a windows environment with vscode where all files need to end with CRLF , so this configs are made:

• .editorconfig the end_of_line property is set to crlf
• git uses crlf
• .prettierrc has "endOfLine": "crlf"
• vscode config has "files.eol": "\r\n" and "prettier.endOfLine": "crlf"

All work as expected except for when you build (or run) the project on device. > cordova build android the package.json file is edited and stripped from the last empty line. That leads git say changes where made and the tree is not clean.

Steps to Reproduce:

• Make a clean cordova project (or if you use Ionic as I do, then an ionic empty project)
• Set eol to crlf
• Add platform Android
• Make sure package.json has a empty new line in the end.
• Run cordova build android

Output:

I had this problem with cordova version 8.0.0 and right now with 8.1.2

Edit: As per this comment, this problem also happens in iOS

[jwhitmarsh]

Affecting iOS too

[doug-a-brunner]

Still exists on CLI 9.0.0.

[dpogue]

Yep, this won't be fixed until we do a complete refactor of our package.json handling. The first part of that is apache/cordova-common#34 which needs a lot more work before it's ready to merge

[raphinesse]

AFAICT, this is a duplicate of #353. Someone please yell at me if that's not right. Closing for now.

[arzyu]

I created a plugin to solve this issue.

https://github.com/arzyu/cordova-plugin-package-json-guard

[u01jmg3]

Plugin from @arzyu did the trick

Now I don't need to battle with npm and cordova over having a trailing newline in package.json

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -95,4 +95,4 @@
         }
     }
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file

[gunhaxxor]

I created a plugin to solve this issue.

https://github.com/arzyu/cordova-plugin-package-json-guard

How about config.xml? Do the plugin handle that aswell?