Dashboard launching error

[Aaron Chong]

Bug report

Required information:

• Operating system and version:
  • Ubuntu 20.04
• OpenRMF installation type:
  • source
• OpenRMF version or commit hash
  • main, .repos file with commit hashes: https://gist.github.com/aaronchongth/94683978e76cdf6959ff77342fbe0d31
• ROS distribution and version:
  • galactic
• ROS installation type:
  • binaries
• Package or library, if applicable:
  • dashboard and related to api-client

Description of the bug

Error when starting dashboard,

Failed to compile.

./src/components/rmf-app/rmf-ingress.ts
Module not found: Can't resolve 'api-client' in '/home/aaron/workspaces/rmf_main/rmf-web/packages/dashboard/src/components/rmf-app'

Steps to reproduce the bug

source rmf_ws/install/setup.bash
cd rmf-web
./script/bootstrap.sh

cd packages/dashboard
npm run start:react

Additional information

There were some internal discussions regarding this issue on Slack already, hopefully we can track the patches and fixes along the way here.

Current workaround, mentioned by @cnboonhan,

source rmf_ws/install/setup.bash
cd rmf-web/packages/dashboard
npm run build

Once the compilation has completed successfully,

npm run start-react

The dashboard launches fine now

[Aaron Chong]

As for working with prototype/task_v2-2 there were similar issues when starting the dashboard, the current workaround seems to be,

cd rmf-web
git checkout 8aecc89    # this is the hash for a few commits before the tip of prototype/task_v2-2

source ~/rmf_ws/install/setup.bash
./script/boostrap.sh

cd packages/dashboard
npm run build
npm run start:react

[Teo Koon Peng]

Thats expected as start:react does not automatically build the dependencies. Dependency resolution only works at the package level, so we can only add the build command to the main start script.

[Aaron Chong]

Thanks for the explanation! Closing as resolved.