StatusBar plugin can't build due to @ionic-native/core missing

Question

I installed the StatusBar plugin based on the documentation:

ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-statusbar
npm install @ionic-native/status-bar

But, when I ran the app locally with ionic serve (or, if I wanted to make the production build with ionic build --prod) I got:

ERROR in node_modules/@ionic-native/status-bar/ngx/index.d.ts(1,35): error TS2307: Cannot find module '@ionic-native/core'.

Answer 1

A very simple solution, which did not have a direct hit either on Google or StackOverflow, was to install the missing core module like this:

npm install @ionic-native/core

After this, the build went through fine.

Hope this helps someone.