How do I start fs-viewer?

[pjotrek-b]

Using xattrs for tagging sounds awesome!
I'm desperately looking for exactly a GUI like yours to expose xattrs more widely :)

But: I feel I'm completely missing the obvious, but I fail to be able to simply "run" fs-viewer (on Xubuntu 20.04).

Is there any build information I could look at?
Thank you very much in advance 😄

[pjotrek-b]

Tried to run it with a Typescript compiler:
$ cd fs-viewer; tsc -w -p .

Didn't seem to go so well:
[10:05:12 PM] Found 44 errors. Watching for file changes.

I'm now looking at "package.json" to find out what dependency-versions fs-viewer has.

Am I on a completely wrong track here? :)

[pjotrek-b]

Here's the complete, uncut console output of tsc:
(Sorry for the noise. Hope it helps someone to come here who runs into the same thing 👼)

[10:05:11 PM] File change detected. Starting incremental compilation...

src/api/main-proxy.ts:22:46 - error TS1011: An element access expression should take an argument.

22 promptFile: createHandler<string[] | false, [filter: FileFilter[], multi?: boolean]>(RequestType.WindowPromptFile),

src/api/main-proxy.ts:22:64 - error TS1005: ']' expected.

22 promptFile: createHandler<string[] | false, [filter: FileFilter[], multi?: boolean]>(RequestType.WindowPromptFile),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:22:77 - error TS1011: An element access expression should take an argument.

22 promptFile: createHandler<string[] | false, [filter: FileFilter[], multi?: boolean]>(RequestType.WindowPromptFile),

src/api/main-proxy.ts:22:95 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

22 promptFile: createHandler<string[] | false, [filter: FileFilter[], multi?: boolean]>(RequestType.WindowPromptFile),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:22:96 - error TS1136: Property assignment expected.

22 promptFile: createHandler<string[] | false, [filter: FileFilter[], multi?: boolean]>(RequestType.WindowPromptFile),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:23:1 - error TS1135: Argument expression expected.

23 });
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:23:2 - error TS1128: Declaration or statement expected.

23 });
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:26:53 - error TS1005: ']' expected.

26 getAttr: createHandler<ArrayBuffer, [path: string, name: string]>(RequestType.FileGetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:26:75 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

26 getAttr: createHandler<ArrayBuffer, [path: string, name: string]>(RequestType.FileGetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:26:76 - error TS1136: Property assignment expected.

26 getAttr: createHandler<ArrayBuffer, [path: string, name: string]>(RequestType.FileGetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:27:12 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

27 setAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string, value: ArrayBuffer]>(RequestType.FileSetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:27:39 - error TS1109: Expression expected.

27 setAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string, value: ArrayBuffer]>(RequestType.FileSetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:27:46 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

27 setAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string, value: ArrayBuffer]>(RequestType.FileSetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:27:60 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

27 setAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string, value: ArrayBuffer]>(RequestType.FileSetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:27:75 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

27 setAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string, value: ArrayBuffer]>(RequestType.FileSetAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:28:15 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

28 removeAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string]>(RequestType.FileRemoveAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:28:39 - error TS1109: Expression expected.

28 removeAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string]>(RequestType.FileRemoveAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:28:46 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

28 removeAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string]>(RequestType.FileRemoveAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:28:60 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

28 removeAttr: createHandler<void, [path: string, name: string]>(RequestType.FileRemoveAttr),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:30:15 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

30 loadObject: createHandler<Record<string, unknown>, [directory: string, file: string]>(RequestType.FileLoadObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:30:58 - error TS1109: Expression expected.

30 loadObject: createHandler<Record<string, unknown>, [directory: string, file: string]>(RequestType.FileLoadObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:30:70 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

30 loadObject: createHandler<Record<string, unknown>, [directory: string, file: string]>(RequestType.FileLoadObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:30:84 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

30 loadObject: createHandler<Record<string, unknown>, [directory: string, file: string]>(RequestType.FileLoadObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:31:16 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

31 patchObject: createHandler<void, [directory: string, file: string, patch: Record<string, unknown>]>(RequestType.FilePatchObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:31:39 - error TS1109: Expression expected.

31 patchObject: createHandler<void, [directory: string, file: string, patch: Record<string, unknown>]>(RequestType.FilePatchObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:31:51 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

31 patchObject: createHandler<void, [directory: string, file: string, patch: Record<string, unknown>]>(RequestType.FilePatchObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:31:65 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

31 patchObject: createHandler<void, [directory: string, file: string, patch: Record<string, unknown>]>(RequestType.FilePatchObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:31:80 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

31 patchObject: createHandler<void, [directory: string, file: string, patch: Record<string, unknown>]>(RequestType.FilePatchObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:31:105 - error TS1005: '(' expected.

31 patchObject: createHandler<void, [directory: string, file: string, patch: Record<string, unknown>]>(RequestType.FilePatchObject),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:33:13 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

33 loadText: createHandler<string[], [path: string]>(RequestType.FileLoadText),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:33:42 - error TS1011: An element access expression should take an argument.

33 loadText: createHandler<string[], [path: string]>(RequestType.FileLoadText),

src/api/main-proxy.ts:33:50 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

33 loadText: createHandler<string[], [path: string]>(RequestType.FileLoadText),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:34:14 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

34 patchText: createHandler<void, [path: string, patch: Record<number, string>]>(RequestType.FilePatchText),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:34:39 - error TS1109: Expression expected.

34 patchText: createHandler<void, [path: string, patch: Record<number, string>]>(RequestType.FilePatchText),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:34:46 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

34 patchText: createHandler<void, [path: string, patch: Record<number, string>]>(RequestType.FilePatchText),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:34:61 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

34 patchText: createHandler<void, [path: string, patch: Record<number, string>]>(RequestType.FilePatchText),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:34:85 - error TS1005: '(' expected.

34 patchText: createHandler<void, [path: string, patch: Record<number, string>]>(RequestType.FilePatchText),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:36:10 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

36 flush: createHandler<void, [directory: string]>(RequestType.FileFlush),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:36:39 - error TS1109: Expression expected.

36 flush: createHandler<void, [directory: string]>(RequestType.FileFlush),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:36:51 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

36 flush: createHandler<void, [directory: string]>(RequestType.FileFlush),
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:37:1 - error TS1135: Argument expression expected.

37 });
~

src/api/main-proxy.ts:37:2 - error TS1128: Declaration or statement expected.

37 });
~

src/ipc.contract.ts:30:13 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

30 homePath: string,
~

src/ipc.contract.ts:31:14 - error TS1005: ',' expected.

31 statePath: string,
~

[10:05:12 PM] Found 44 errors. Watching for file changes.

[pjotrek-b]

I'm now trying nodejs "npm install ." - since there's a package.json file.
However, it seems to start pulling in dependencies, then hangs forever with a "fetchMetadata: still" line (see below).

Any ideas, suggestions dearly welcome 😅
Can't wait to get this thing running! 😁

npm WARN deprecated @babel/[email protected]: This proposal has been merged to the ECMAScript standard and thus this plugin is no longer maintained. Please use @babel/plugin-transform-object-rest-spread instead.
npm WARN deprecated @types/[email protected]: This is a stub types definition for reselect (https://github.com/rackt/reselect). reselect provides its own type definitions, so you don't need @types/reselect installed!
npm WARN deprecated @babel/[email protected]: This proposal has been merged to the ECMAScript standard and thus this plugin is no longer maintained. Please use @babel/plugin-transform-class-properties instead.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This loader has been deprecated. Please use eslint-webpack-plugin
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use your platform's native atob() and btoa() methods instead
npm WARN deprecated @humanwhocodes/[email protected]: Use @eslint/config-array instead
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This package has been renamed to 'prop-types-tools'
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please use @electron/osx-sign moving forward. Be aware the API is slightly different
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Rimraf versions prior to v4 are no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated @humanwhocodes/[email protected]: Use @eslint/object-schema instead
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please use @electron/asar moving forward. There is no API change, just a package name change
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use your platform's native DOMException instead
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use your platform's native performance.now() and performance.timeOrigin.
[ ................] / fetchMetadata: sill pacote version manifest for [email protected] fetched in 153ms

[pjotrek-b]

UPDATE: I honestly simply didn't look at the releases 😊

I've now installed the Debian package (.deb) on Xubuntu 20.04.

I will close this thread, and rather rephrase a new one with "how can I build fs-viewer in 2024?" 😄