Cordova – white screen after splash, no exceptions in console

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Well that was ugly. It turned out that there was an exception being thrown, it was just being thrown too early for the browser dev tools to pick it up (Safari, Chrome for iOS and Android, respectively). The exception did show up when I ran things through the browser target (cordova platform add browser, etc.) So that browser platform is useful for something I guess. 🙂

In my case, the cordova-sqlite-storage plugin had made a breaking API change that broke the code when I updated everything. The solution was to pin the plugin to an earlier version in the config.xml file.

So, lessons learned:

  • If you suspect there’s an exception being thrown during startup, you can use the browser platform to track it down.
  • Pin your plugins to a specific version using the spec parameter in the config.xml. This will save you some heartache in the future.
  • [another option from @jcesarmobile, below] hitting refresh in the browser dev tools will also kick out the exception. Nice!

I’ll be going back in to the config.xml and pinning the other items — and doing some cleanup as suggested above. Thanks again, everyone.

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