Blank screen when first running explorer -- because of missing setting in .env file

[steelep]

Hi,

It is not clear from the documentation that the .env file needs to be updated, if you are accessing the trueblocks-explorer frontend from a browser on another machine. If you do not, it causes component connection failures. I suggest a revision to the README.MD to point this out.

Thanks

[tjayrush]

Thanks. Yes.

Note to self: This user seems to have opened the app without first having created the .env file. The docs should be more clear and instruct the user to copy the .env.example file to .env.

(I'm just noticing that the example file is hidden, which may be why the user didn't see it.)

Also, the .env.example file should have comments inside of it, so the user will know what to do with it.

Also, the README should tell the user to make the setting.

[tjayrush]

Perhaps the application itself could recognize that it has not .env and/or that the .env does not contain a valid URL to the chifra server and instruct the user to correct the missing value for the Server url.

[tjayrush]

The explorer repo has been closed, but we're still working on apps. More later on our blog.