How can I switch back to interactive in Ionic CLI?

Issue

When using Ionic, the --no-interactive flag is automatically applied in every command and its very frustrating.

For example, when running ionic start, I get

--no-confirm: Integrate your new app with Cordova to target native iOS and Android? No

According to the documentation, this should have been a prompt and allowed me to select yes but it selects "no" without prompt. The only thing I could find in the documentation is this:

https://ionicframework.com/docs/cli/configuring.html

Flags CLI flags are global options that alter the behavior of a CLI command.

--help: Instead of running the command, view its help page.

--verbose: Show all log messages for debugging purposes.

--quiet: Only show WARN and ERROR log messages.

--no-interactive: Turn off interactive prompts and fancy outputs. If a CI server is detected (we use ci-info), the CLI is automatically non-interactive.

--confirm: Turn on auto-confirmation of confirmation prompts. Careful: the CLI prompts before doing something potentially harmful. Auto-confirming may have unintended results.

But I'm not sure what a CI server is or how that would have been enabled since this is a fresh install. I tried unisntalling NPM completely, deleting my AppData npm folders and reinstalling but this doesn't solve the problem.

Per this question I tried another solution:

https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/issues/2744

ionic config set -g interactive true

This modified my global ionic config file but didn't change the outcome. I still have --no-confirm on my ionic start command.

Solution

It turns out the issue is that my terminal (git bash in this case because powershell doesn't work for some of the stuff I needed to use) didn't support interactive. It would be much more convenient if the error message from Ionic was more specific. My solution was to uninstall windows because it's a crap OS for developers, install Ubuntu, and use the native terminal which works perfectly.

I suppose anyone coming in from Google with the same issue could switch from git bash to Powershell if just for this one operation, but there's a lot of interaction with ionic so you're basically stuck with Powershell instead of git bash.

Answered By - Citizen