Cordova source code quality and maintainability issues

9/10 Critical

Cordova's source code contains tangled, unmaintained, and bad practice wiring that makes plugin development extremely difficult. Developers attempting to customize Cordova plugins may find themselves forced to completely rewrite their application in native code.

Cordova
Category
compatibility
Workaround
none
Stage
build
Freshness
persistent
Scope
single_lib
Upstream
stale
Recurring
Yes
Buyer Type
team
Maintainer
abandoned

Sources

Collection History

Query: “What are the most common pain points with Ruby for developers in 2025?”4/8/2026

But if you crack open the source of Cordova, you find all kinds of tangled, unmaintained, bad practice wiring and rewiring. I spent a few months trying to hack Cordova plugins and we decided to just scrap the entire code and build native; fully rewriting the app into a custom framework took 3 months.

Created: 4/8/2026Updated: 4/8/2026