Unable to view changes made to a custom widget

[TommyThompson1]

How do I view changes I've made to my widget?

Hi everyone, I'm currently in the very early stages of creating my own widget. I've started by building on top of the scaffolding provided by Tom Watson and the Yeoman generator. I'm following the steps provided in the ESRI Guide for Web AppDeveloper to view changes to the configuration and to view the widget inside the app - Make widgets configurable in builder—Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS (Developer Edition) | ArcGIS for Deve...

Specifically, I'm using the URL http://your host/webappbuilder/?appid=stemapp & http://your host/webappviewer/.

Neither of these URL's show changes I've made to the widget. Even if they are simple changes, for example, adding a line to the widget.html displaying a test message, or changing the default icon.png. I'm very sure I'm making changes to the correct widget and within the correct directory. 

Any thoughts? Its difficult to make progress without being able to test my versions as I move forward.

Thanks everyone!

Tom Thompson

Apologies in advance if I have used the wrong forum section for this post.

[RobertScheitlin__GISP · Accepted solution]

Tom,

  I personally do not use those urls in my widget development (personal choice). Here is a thread that details my widget development workflow: https://community.esri.com/message/576497#comment-576497

[TommyThompson1]

Hi Robert,

Working from the Server directory makes so much sense. I don't know why I didn't think of this beforehand.

I see changes I've made already.

Thank you so much!