[CB-7825] cordova serve breaks silently when any platform's prepare step fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: cordova-serve
• Assignee: Josh Soref
• Reporter: Josh Soref
• Created: 20/Oct/14 20:06
• Updated: 26/Jun/18 04:08

Description

$ cordova serve
$

totally unhelpful.

for a in `cd platforms/; ls`; do cordova prepare $a > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || echo $a is broken; done
android is broken

Specifically, i'm using /tmp on OS X for my project, and /tmp self destructs, so prepare failed due to:

Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/tmp/aa/platforms/android/res/values/strings.xml'

Expected result:
cordova serve should serve all working platforms and spit out a warning for broken platforms. If it can't serve any platforms, it should fail, and when it fails, there should be an error code returned to its caller.