topic Re: Custom Widgets not showing in Experience Builder Custom Widgets

Custom Widgets not showing

Jon-PaulMcCool — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:07:34 GMT

I am new to the EB developer and having a devil of a time with something that is likely a foolish mistake. I have done the following:

Installed node.js installed (v 16.15.0)
Downloaded, extracted, and configured the EB files (v 1.8)
Successfully started the localhost:3001
Followed the tutorial to create the simple hello world starter-widget
In the cmd window I crtl+c then start npm for the client folder

Yet when I go and create a new experience (the blank scrolling as instructed), no where in the widgets is a "starter-widget". I've also closed the sever run and restarted it and redone the process. I've downloaded their files and my folder structure and file formats are all exactly the same.

Any hints on where I could look to see what I may be doing wrong would be appreciated.

Re: Custom Widgets not showing

PhilLarkin1 — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:39:37 GMT

I'm assuming you have run npm cli and npm start as shown in the in the docs. Can you send screenshots of the cmd windows?

Re: Custom Widgets not showing

Jon-PaulMcCool — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:18:46 GMT

Thank you! I had not run npm ci for the server! Now, I can continue with making other, newer mistakes.

Re: Custom Widgets not showing

PhilLarkin1 — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:28:32 GMT

I frequently forget to run npm cli for client or server or both.

Re: Custom Widgets not showing

GiulioMol — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:02:13 GMT

me too 🙂 I use now this script for don't forget this,

if exist ArcGISExperienceBuilder/client/node_modules\ ( cmd /c start powershell -noexit -command "cd ArcGISExperienceBuilder\client; npm start" cmd /c start powershell -noexit -command "cd ArcGISExperienceBuilder\server; npm start" ) else ( cmd /c start powershell -noexit -command "cd ArcGISExperienceBuilder\client; npm ci; npm start" cmd /c start powershell -noexit -command "cd ArcGISExperienceBuilder\server; npm ci; npm start" ) start http://localhost:3000

from here

Re: Custom Widgets not showing

moward12 — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:56:31 GMT

I followed these steps and my `starter-widget` is still not showing.