After upgrading to cordova v7 plugins are downloaded with cordova-fetch by default when using cordova prepare. In v7 this could be overridden by using --no-fetch. The no-fetch flag has been dropped since cordova v8 though.
Installing the plugins took seconds with v6 and v7 with the no-fetch flag, but now it takes around 10 minutes for the same number of plugins (around 20).
Is there no way to get the plugins in a similar amount of time as v6 and v7 when using cordova v8?
Are we supposed to check in the plugins so that we don't download them every build now?