can't loaded the extension when started my app

[Lynn]

the extension directory can't be read.

By the way, I use tnpm install of npm in my computer, dose this matter ?

[The Jared Wilcurt]

Yes, you need git, and npm installed globally. nw-vue-devtools will use git to clone down the latest version of Vue DevTools source code, it then runs an npm install on the cloned code to get all dependencies. Then does a build. See the "Prerequisites", "Instructions", and "How it works" sections in the README.

• https://github.com/TheJaredWilcurt/nw-vue-devtools#prerequisites
• https://github.com/TheJaredWilcurt/nw-vue-devtools#instructions
• https://github.com/TheJaredWilcurt/nw-vue-devtools#how-it-works

If this automated form does not work for you, this video shows manual steps:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmsOUpZQm-4

[Thomas Nilefalk]

In my case the installation could not clone the devtools-repo since I ran npm from cywgin, which trashed the paths.

Moving to a cmd-console worked.

Help for me would have been a detection of the failed clone and printing an error message.

[The Jared Wilcurt]

The git clone code is here:

• https://github.com/TheJaredWilcurt/nw-vue-devtools/blob/master/postinstall.js#L95

It should attempt an https clone, then if that fails, try an ssh clone, and if that fails, throw an error message.

[The Jared Wilcurt]

@Lynn-cc @thoni56

There is an alternate repo you can try:

• https://github.com/DimPaDev/nw-vue-devtools-prebuilt

It downloads Vue Devtools directly from the Chrome store, rather than building from the source code.