Common Issues

Chokidar file watcher on Linux runs out of files to watch https://stackoverflow.com/a/56156015
when developing and running the application with yarn start, you will need a dev-app-update.yml file so that electron-builder auto update process doesn't throw an error. An example dev-app-update.yml is shown below:

owner: sscullen
repo: tile_viewer
token: <gh person access token here>
provider: github

while developing, the react and redux extensions are attempted to be loaded, you will need to install chromium and the appropriate extensions from the Chrome Web Store
node-canvas is missing pre-built packages on Windows, make sure to have lib-cairo and pango installed on both Windows and Linux, which is provided through GTK, and that your node-gyp is working properly on Windows
- node-gyp setup on windows: https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#on-windows
- libcairo from GTK2 on windows: https://github.com/Automattic/node-canvas/wiki/Installation%3A-Windows
- cairo, pango, turbojpeg on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libcairo2-dev
sudo apt install libpango1.0-dev
sudo apt install libjpeg-turbo8-dev

a combo that worked on Windows 10, windows build tools 2019, node 14 LTS, set the node compile version with npm config set msvs_version 2019 –global

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