Cordova To Capacitor

If you're stuck maintaining a Cordova app and need to migrate to Capacitor, this walks you through the entire process systematically. It checks your current setup, maps Cordova plugins to their Capacitor equivalents (camera, geolocation, filesystem, the usual suspects), and shows you exactly how to rewrite the code patterns. The deviceready event goes away, callbacks become async/await, and you get proper IDE integration instead of CLI-only builds. It includes a solid reference table for both official Capacitor plugins and third-party alternatives from the Capgo ecosystem. Honestly, the hardest part of any Cordova migration is just knowing which plugins exist and what the API differences are, and this covers both thoroughly.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add cap-go/capgo-skills --skill cordova-to-capacitor --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Cordova to Capacitor Migration

Move a Cordova app onto Capacitor incrementally: Capacitor first, plugins one by one, Cordova removed last.

When to Use

TRIGGER when:

config.xml, platforms/, plugins/, cordova-android/cordova-ios, or cordova-plugin-* are present and the user wants Capacitor.
Code waits on deviceready or calls navigator.camera, window.plugins.*, cordova.plugins.*, @awesome-cordova-plugins/*, @ionic-native/*.
After migration: data loss on first launch, missing Cordova plugin behaviour, or Capacitor 9 build errors referencing Cordova symbols.

Do not use for:

Rewriting a Cordova plugin's Java/Objective-C as a Capacitor plugin (plugin-level port) -> follow Capacitor plugin docs; capacitor-plugins for existing replacements.
Upgrading Capacitor majors -> capacitor-app-upgrades.
Replacing Appflow Live Updates (cordova-plugin-ionic) -> ionic-appflow-migration + capgo-live-updates.
Framework build config (Angular output path, Vite) -> framework-to-capacitor.