WALC 0.3.0 #226

Zzombiee2361 · 2023-04-01T17:26:01Z

Zzombiee2361
Apr 1, 2023
Maintainer

From now on any new features will get a minor version bump. If there's only bug fixes only the patch version will get a bump.

What's new

Chat with any number

Need to chat some stranger? Or want to quickly send something to some guy's number? We're all too tired to reach our phone, open contact, add the number, then finally send the message. You can now chat with other people without saving their number! Go to Dashboard > Tools > Open Chat

Monochrome tray icon

The default tray icon don't match your taste? Want a uniform look on your tray? Now you can change it to monochrome icon by going to Dashboard > Settings > Tray Icon > Icon Type

PS: the tray badge would still be bright red when there's a new message

Bug Fixes

WhatsApp works with Chrome 60+
Now more robust & should work with other language. Fixes [Bug Report] Whatsapp works with Chrome 60+ #172

This discussion was created from the release WALC 0.3.0.

rainbatt · 2023-04-02T04:35:34Z

rainbatt
Apr 2, 2023

Will there be an AppImage [WALC 0.3.0]?

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Zzombiee2361 · 2023-04-02T04:42:38Z

Zzombiee2361
Apr 2, 2023
Maintainer Author

There's an AppImage on the release page

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rainbatt · 2023-04-02T05:58:27Z

rainbatt
Apr 2, 2023

Do U mean the pre-release, beta version AppImage? Tks

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Zzombiee2361 Apr 2, 2023
Maintainer Author

Yes it is stable release https://github.com/WAClient/WALC/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Sadi58 · 2023-04-02T12:36:23Z

Sadi58
Apr 2, 2023

@Zzombiee2361 This release (v0.3.0) has only two assets without AppImage (included in the previous releases).

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Zzombiee2361 · 2023-04-02T13:40:56Z

Zzombiee2361
Apr 2, 2023
Maintainer Author

Oh turns out it failed to upload, I fixed it now

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Sadi58 Apr 2, 2023

Thank you! ♥️

albakhtari · 2023-04-10T10:12:13Z

albakhtari
Apr 10, 2023

8 days later.... Updated the AUR package...
What?! It's رمضان 😁

EDIT: There's something wrong with the PKGBUILD, will be debugged after رمضان

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albakhtari · 2023-04-26T15:34:33Z

albakhtari
Apr 26, 2023

I'm now debugging the manual build process of the AUR PKGBUILD.
Are there any additional steps apart from those in the README.md @Zzombiee2361?

When I follow the steps, I get the following errors:

~> cd WALC-0.3.0
~> npm install
[...]
~> npm run dev
[...]
~> npm start

> [email protected] start
> electron .

App threw an error during load
Error: Cannot find module 'whatsapp-web-electron.js'
Require stack:
- /tmp/WALC-0.3.0/src/main.js
- /tmp/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js
- 
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:940:15)
    at n._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:245:1105)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:785:27)
    at c._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:13343)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1012:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/WALC-0.3.0/src/main.js:16:20)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1120:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1175:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32)
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module 'whatsapp-web-electron.js'
Require stack:
- /tmp/WALC-0.3.0/src/main.js
- /tmp/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/electron/dist/resources/default_app.asar/main.js
- 
    at Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:940:15)
    at n._resolveFilename (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:245:1105)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:785:27)
    at c._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:13343)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1012:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/WALC-0.3.0/src/main.js:16:20)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1120:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1175:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32)

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albakhtari Apr 27, 2023

Are these commands for production builds in pkgbuild?

No.

Don't run npm run dev for production, use npm run prod instead.

I didn't know that, will use that from now on.

Something is wrong during npm install. Let me see the output.

~> npm install

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Modern JS already guarantees Array#sort() is a stable sort, so this library is deprecated. See the compatibility table on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/sort#browser_compatibility
npm WARN deprecated @npmcli/[email protected]: This functionality has been moved to @npmcli/fs
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: this library is no longer supported
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API 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]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please use @electron/osx-sign moving forward. Be aware the API is slightly different
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please use @electron/rebuild moving forward.  There is no API change, just a package name change

> [email protected] postinstall
> electron-builder install-app-deps

  • electron-builder  version=23.6.0
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • rebuilding native dependencies  [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] platform=linux arch=x64

added 1240 packages, and audited 1243 packages in 21s

130 packages are looking for funding
  run `npm fund` for details

16 vulnerabilities (5 moderate, 11 high)

To address issues that do not require attention, run:
  npm audit fix

To address all issues possible (including breaking changes), run:
  npm audit fix --force

Some issues need review, and may require choosing
a different dependency.

Run `npm audit` for details.

Also do you actually run npm run start too?

I did, and that gave the same error

I'm now running what npm suggests: npm audit fix --force to see if that makes any difference.

albakhtari Apr 27, 2023

After running npm audit fix --force the error gets clarified:

~> npm install

> [email protected] postinstall
> electron-builder install-app-deps

  • electron-builder  version=24.3.0
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • executing @electron/rebuild  arch=x64 version=24.1.3 appDir=/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0
  ⨯ ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/whatsapp-web-electron.js'  failedTask=installAppDeps stackTrace=Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/whatsapp-web-electron.js'
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c electron-builder install-app-deps

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/abdullah/.npm/_logs/2023-04-27T04_02_49_644Z-debug-0.log

I face no problems when running the same commands on older versions of WALC

EDIT: After that I ran: npm install whatsapp-web-electron.js, and then got another error on npm install:

> [email protected] postinstall
> electron-builder install-app-deps

  • electron-builder  version=24.3.0
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • executing @electron/rebuild  arch=x64 version=24.1.3 appDir=/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0
  ⨯ Could not detect abi for version 24.1.3 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron  failedTask=installAppDeps stackTrace=Error: Could not detect abi for version 24.1.3 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron
    at Object.getAbi (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/node-abi/index.js:39:9)
    at Rebuilder.get ABI [as ABI] (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/@electron/rebuild/src/rebuild.ts:124:33)
    at PrebuildInstall.prebuiltModuleExists (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/@electron/rebuild/src/module-type/prebuild-install.ts:62:149)
    at ModuleRebuilder.prebuildInstallNativeModuleExists (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/@electron/rebuild/src/module-rebuilder.ts:56:33)
    at Rebuilder.rebuildModuleAt (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/@electron/rebuild/src/rebuild.ts:179:31)
    at Rebuilder.rebuild (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/@electron/rebuild/src/rebuild.ts:158:9)
    at installOrRebuild (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/app-builder-lib/src/util/yarn.ts:27:5)
    at installAppDeps (/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/electron-builder/src/cli/install-app-deps.ts:58:3)
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c electron-builder install-app-deps

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/abdullah/.npm/_logs/2023-04-27T04_05_18_202Z-debug-0.log

So I ran npm install node-abi, then ran npm install without any issues.
When it comes to running npm start/npm run start WALC initializes, but then crashes (:man_facepalming:) with the following logs:

~> npm run start

> [email protected] start
> electron .

APPIMAGE env is not defined, current application is not an AppImage
checkForUpdatesAndNotify called, downloadPromise is null

(electron:6435): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:07:04.378: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:1649:16: '-gtk-icon-size' is not a valid property name

(electron:6435): Gtk-WARNING **: 09:07:04.378: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:1652:16: '-gtk-icon-size' is not a valid property name

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:36167/devtools/browser/0d1d0933-6639-4507-ad1c-b8c5639acc01
(node:6435) ExtensionLoadWarning: Warnings loading extension at /home/abdullah/.config/walc/extensions/nhdogjmejiglipccpnnnanhbledajbpd:
  Manifest version 2 is deprecated, and support will be removed in 2023. See https://developer.chrome.com/blog/mv2-transition/ for more details.

(Use `electron --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
Added Extension:  Vue.js devtools
libva error: vaGetDriverNameByIndex() failed with unknown libva error, driver_name = (null)
Creating whatsapp client
Whatsapp client ready
[6435:0427/090716.686819:ERROR:node_bindings.cc(158)] Fatal error in V8: v8_ArrayBuffer_NewBackingStore When the V8 Sandbox is enabled, ArrayBuffer backing stores must be allocated inside the sandbox address space. Please use an appropriate ArrayBuffer::Allocator to allocate these buffers, or disable the sandbox.
/home/abdullah/01-Projects/GH/aur/WALC-0.3.0/node_modules/electron/dist/electron exited with signal SIGSEGV

I read online that this is to do with older versions of electron, but I'm not sure 🤷‍♂️

Zzombiee2361 May 5, 2023
Maintainer Author

Hmm, what node version are you using? I'm using node v16.x. You don't need to run npm audit fix --force

Try deleting node_modules and running npm install again

albakhtari May 12, 2023

Sorry for the extremely late reply.

~> node --version                                    
v16.20.0

I removed node_modules and re-ran npm install, but that didn't fix the issue.
Someone else is facing the same error:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/walc#comment-914018

albakhtari May 13, 2023

Sorry for the very late reply, the internet was down nation wide for a few days.

~> node --version                                    
v16.20.0

I deleted node_modules and re-ran npm install, but that didn't make a difference.
Someone else is facing the same issue.

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WALC 0.3.0 #226

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Chat with any number

Monochrome tray icon

Bug Fixes

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