Sample extension loading, but not running - how to debug?

eddiewebb

I followed the extend guides and compared my skeleton with a few sample apps. I have it local in the packages folder, and composer can find and install it.

I can see and activate it in UI.

The major peices seem to be in place (extend.php, forum.js (exports src/forum/index.js).

But when I activate the extension, the sample JS is never run, no errors are shown anywhere.

Nothing in storage/logs and php is not showing errors despite enabling in php.ini.

error_log = /tmp/test.log
log_errors = on
display_errors = on

Extension code https://github.com/eddiewebb/flarum-adv-extras
php 7.4.7
Flarum Beta 0.13

any critical config points or values I should check?

clarkwinkelmann

eddiewebb does the GitHub repo contains the exact code you tried? It's just logging a message to the browser console. If you're not seeing anything in the console, maybe you have hidden debug statements in the browser development settings?

Usually there's an error message in either Flarum log or the browser console.

You can enable debug in config.php to get the errors on screen in addition to the log file.

If there's no error at all, maybe it's a logic error and the code is simply never called or is not registered properly.

From a quick look at your repo it seems to be all right for the starter extension with console logs.

eddiewebb

Thank you clarkwinkelmann !

yes, just trying to print to console to prove everything is wired up.
Using Chrome, and console set to show all levels.
I've got 'debug' => true, in my config.php already, still nothing.

If there's no error at all, maybe it's a logic error and the code is simply never called or is not registered properly.

any advice tracing that down?

clarkwinkelmann

eddiewebb if nothing at all works my strategy is usually to purposefully mess the code to get an idea where it stops working.

Put gibberish in extend.php, see if it breaks. Put giberrish in dist/forum.js, see if it breaks. Put gibberish in javascript source files, see if it breaks, ... 😁

eddiewebb

Yay!

Not sure what though.

Extend.php threw warnings, sweet, moving on.
dist/forums.js threw warnings, sweet.
Manually added print lines to dist/forums.js, nothing.
re-re-generated (webpack was watching, killed and restarted) and now console prints.

Thank you for the assist!