Unable to remove firebasex plugin from iOS Cordova

[rolinger]

Bug report

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Current behavior:

Trying to remove the plugin: > cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-firebasex --nosave returns the following error:

Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'opts')

Expected behavior:
Plugin should cleanly be removed from project

Steps to reproduce:

Screenshots

Environment information

• Cordova CLI version
  • cordova -v: 12.0
• Cordova platform version
  • cordova platform ls cordova-ios v7.1.1
• Plugins & versions installed in project (including this plugin)
  • cordova plugin ls v18.0.5
• Dev machine OS and version, e.g.
  • OSX Mac
    • sw_vers: Sanoma 14.6.1
  • Windows 10
    • winver

Runtime issue

• Device details
  -NA
• OS details
  • NA

Android build issue: NA

iOS build issue:

• Node JS version
  • node -v : 23.5.0
• XCode version: 16.2

Related code:

The error is thrown on this firebasex script in ...cordova-plugin-firebasex/scripts/lib/utilities.js:

Utilities.getAppName = function(){
    if(_context.opts.cordova.platforms.indexOf('ios') !== -1){    <---------
        const projectRoot = _context.opts.projectRoot;
        const platformPath = path.join(projectRoot, 'platforms', 'ios');
        const cordova_ios = require('cordova-ios');
        const iosProject = new cordova_ios('ios', platformPath);

        return path.basename(iosProject.locations.xcodeCordovaProj);
    }
    // other platforms
    return Utilities.parseConfigXml().widget.name._text.toString().trim();
};

Console output

cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-firebasex --nosave --verbose  

No scripts found for hook "before_plugin_rm".
Calling plugman.uninstall on plugin "cordova-plugin-firebasex" for platform "ios"
Finding scripts for "before_plugin_uninstall" hook from plugin cordova-plugin-firebasex on ios platform only.
Executing script found in plugin cordova-plugin-firebasex for hook "before_plugin_uninstall": plugins/cordova-plugin-firebasex/scripts/ios/before_plugin_uninstall.js
Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'opts')  
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'opts')
    at Utilities.getAppName (/Users/rpo/dev/myapp/plugins/cordova-plugin-firebasex/scripts/lib/utilities.js:68:17)
    at Object.getXcodeProjectPath (/Users/rpo/dev/myapp/plugins/cordova-plugin-firebasex/scripts/ios/helper.js:65:33)
    at module.exports (/Users/rpo/dev/myapp/plugins/cordova-plugin-firebasex/scripts/ios/before_plugin_uninstall.js:6:35)
    at runScriptViaModuleLoader (/Users/rpo/.nvm/versions/node/v23.5.0/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/hooks/HooksRunner.js:159:32)
    at runScript (/Users/rpo/.nvm/versions/node/v23.5.0/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/hooks/HooksRunner.js:138:12)
    at /Users/rpo/.nvm/versions/node/v23.5.0/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/hooks/HooksRunner.js:110:40

Other information:

So far firebasex was working fine, but build times were taking for ever so I was trying to take advantage of the variable IOS_USE_PRECOMPILED_FIRESTORE_POD = true in the package.json setting. After that I attempted to remove/re-add the plugin to enable the new variable when I encountered the error. FirebaseX is so integrated I am nervous about manually trying to remove it.