Create your first Cordova app

Create your first Cordova app

This guide shows you how to create a JS/HTML Cordova application and deploy them to various native mobile platforms using the cordova command-line interface (CLI). For detailed reference on Cordova command-line, review the CLI reference

Installing the Cordova CLI

The Cordova command-line tool is distributed as an npm package.

To install the cordova command-line tool, follow these steps:

  1. Download and install Node.js. On installation you should be able to invoke node and npm on your command line.

  2. (Optional) Download and install a git client, if