Error: EACCES, permission denied Ionic Cordova IOS

Question

I keep getting the following errors:

Error: EACCES, permission denied \'/Users/Anuraag/.cordova/lib/tmp\' . 

Whenever I try to do cordova

Answer 1

After trying every single solution here I had to BEGRUDGINGLY reinstall ionic

npm i -g ionic

Begrudgingly because my plan was to upgrade ionic to see what would break but first I wanted to run it at the current version first to see if everything still worked.