Web mode still supported?

[rustyechelle]

Hello

I'm trying to run FreeTube locally using yarn run dev and the page fails to load (window.ftElectron undefined errors)

Then i tried to add --web option to start in web mode which makes the interface usable, but disables "local API"

This makes me think this web mode may not be supported anymore

So, is this mode "yarn run dev" still supported? And if not : how do you work on the project locally?

Thank you 🙂

[absidue]

@rustyechelle FreeTube never supported a web mode. When you run yarn run dev an Electron window will open and you should only use FreeTube through that, trying to access FreeTube stuff through your web browser is not supported so it is entirely expected that it will error.

yarn run dev:web and yarn run pack:web are smoke tests for FreeTubeAndroid, to ensure we don't unintentionally break downstream builds, they are not meant to be used for normal development or for actually using FreeTube, which is also why they are extremely limited in their functionality.

Additionally you can only develop and run FreeTube locally because it is a desktop app that talks directly to YouTube, there is no "FreeTube server".

[rustyechelle]

Thanks !

So, the problem was that i tried to run that in a docker container, i didn't know it would open an electron window. The web server starting messages made me think it could be usable through a browser.

In case someone may need it, here's what happened next :

I tried to run from my system directly and it didn't work too, the electron window didn't show up. No error message

Then i activated the logs in dev-runner.js

  electronProcess = spawn(electron, [
    path.join(__dirname, '../dist/main.js'),
    '--enable-logging', // Enable to show logs from all electron processes
    remoteDebugging ? '--inspect=9222' : '',
    remoteDebugging ? '--remote-debugging-port=9223' : ''
  ], { stdio: 'inherit' } // required for logs to actually appear in the stdout
  )

The problem was the AppArmor stuff, so i've put an apparmor config in /etc/apparmor.d/freetube-dev (change the path to where you've cloned the project) ; note : i'm using Ubuntu

abi <abi/4.0>,
include <tunables/global>

profile "/home/xxxx/xxxxx/FreeTube/node_modules/electron/dist/electron" flags=(unconfined) {
  userns,

  # Site-specific additions and overrides. See local/README for details.
  include if exists <local/freetube>
}

then sudo systemctl restart apparmor.service

Now, yarn run dev starts the electron app succesfully