Can one launch an app using "meteor run ios-device --mobile-server" in an empty dir?

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For example, my codebase is on Macbook A, and is deployed to myapp.meteor.com. But, I want to test my app on an iOS-device connected to Macbook B.

On Macbook B:
meteor create sometestname
cd sometestname/
rm -r *
meteor add-platform ios
meteor run ios-device --mobile-server myapp.meteor.com.

A few things arent working — some of my Cordova plugins are simply not loading in the iOS device.
See Piece of code in mdg:camera works in cordova android, but not ios

Curious, I wonder if this is because I’m running meteor run ios-device ... in a blank meteor directory.

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Not an expert but I would say that this is the problem…

The build process requires the files from the folder.

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Can you elaborate? Because clearly it doesn’t require all of them. Which is why what is happening here is fairly counterintuitive

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You should indeed run the app from your original project directory, not from a newly created empty project. What I suspect is happenings here is that hot code push downloads the code from your deployed app on the first run, which is why some the non-native parts seem to be working. But native plugin code, settings, etc. are not downloadable and will be missing.

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Yep, I got the entire thing to work properly by including settings.json and packages file in the “empty” dir. Apparently, it gets everything else from the deployed app (source, etc.)