Blank window on gulp serve

[theGeekyLad]

Environment

• OS - Ubuntu 20.04.01 LTS
• CPU - Ryzen 5 3500U (if that matters)
• Node - v10.22.1
• Gulp
  • CLI version: 2.3.0
  • Local version: 3.9.1

Issue

I followed the Development section under README.md as is, but on running gulp serve I get a blank screen and the following on my terminal:

thegeekylad@tgl-thinkpad:~/opsdroid-desktop$ gulp serve
[01:27:16] Using gulpfile ~/opsdroid-desktop/gulpfile.js
[01:27:16] Starting 'serve'...
[01:27:16] Starting 'compile'...
[01:27:16] Starting 'babel'...
[01:27:16] Starting 'sass'...
[01:27:16] Finished 'compile' after 9.6 ms
[01:27:16] Finished 'serve' after 30 ms
[2020-10-10T19:57:16.137Z] [electron-connect] [server] started electron process: 73811
[2020-10-10T19:57:16.138Z] [electron-connect] [server] server created and listening on 30080
[01:27:16] Finished 'sass' after 282 ms
[73843:1011/012716.624292:ERROR:buffer_manager.cc(488)] [.DisplayCompositor]GL ERROR :GL_INVALID_OPERATION : glBufferData: <- error from previous GL command

Any thoughts?

[FabioRosado]

Hello @theGeekyLad thanks for raising this issue we haven't updated this repo in a while.

If you are using opsdroid-desktop you can use the shell connector - which comes with opsdroid or you could try running opsdroid web that version doesn't depend on electron - which I'm assuming that's why you are getting that error - because we haven't updated this in a while.

If you need help getting started with opsdroid you can read the getting started documentation or let me know and I will be happy to help you out 👍

[theGeekyLad]

Thanks for the prompt reply @FabioRosado ! Was intending to fix #17 but I understand that the repo isn't updated. Guess you can close the issue. I'll check out the web version meanwhile. :+1:

[FabioRosado]

Oh I see, if you want to spend some time with this you could try to upload the dependencies and see if that fixes the issue - maybe use npm check updates 🤔

I wrote a post about that. I'm also happy to tag it as hacktoberfest-accepted if you want to spend some time with it 👍

[theGeekyLad]

That's a nice read @FabioRosado ! I'll try a hand in updating the dependencies and let you know. :+1: