failed to load plugin

[cristianmtr]

Hello,

I am trying to use this plugin. However, when I try to activate I get an error "Failed to load plugin" and it doesn't activate.

0.14.15 on Ubuntu

[hgrw]

Not sure if its the official way to do it but I got it to work by installing with npm.

npm run build. If main.js is generated, it will work. You'll have to install typescript too.

[gpQ4utjefs]

Hello,

I am trying to use this plugin. However, when I try to activate I get an error "Failed to load plugin" and it doesn't activate.

0.14.15 on Ubuntu

Same problem

[dwrolvink]

Not sure if its the official way to do it but I got it to work by installing with npm.

npm run build. If main.js is generated, it will work. You'll have to install typescript too.

Yes this is a step that I use when developing it, I assumed that once the main.js is generated this would not be necessary.

@cristianmtr apologies for the late reaction, I don't seem to get emails for this project for some reason.
Does the npm run build work for you? This is really still in alpha mode related to this item, I can look this weekend whether I can get it to work without any npm dependencies.

[sa-aguilarv]

Hello,

I am trying to use this plugin. However, when I try to activate I get an error "Failed to load plugin" and it doesn't activate.

0.14.15 on Ubuntu

Hey! I'm having the same problem. I tried to solve it by:

1. Installing npm: sudo apt install npm source
2. Installing typescript:
   curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo npm install -g typescript
tsc
   source

After that, I did the npm run build and among the errors (see errors1.txt) it said to do npm i --save-dev @types/node which I was unable to install until I did:

1. cd to get out of the obs-html directory
2. sudo npm i --save-dev @types/node

Once again I got multiple errors when I tried to install the plugin with npm (see errors2.txt). I realized there were a lot of missing modules/properties/... so I did the following:

1. npm i obsidian source
2. npm i require source
3. npm i tslib source

Here I stopped because I might be getting this all wrong. I don't have experience with npm, so I would be grateful if someone could help me out.

Thank you in advance for reading my message.

errors1.txt
errors2.txt

[dwrolvink]

All that I did, to install and use the plugin is this:

npm i          # to install dependencies
npm run dev    # to start compilation in watch mode

See also https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-sample-plugin#how-to-use

Though after compiling I can just reboot my pc and have the plugin work, so I thought the plugin should just work as-is, when the main.js is created, but this is apparently not the case...

Will have to look into this further, I'm not a nodejs guru.

[sa-aguilarv]

All that I did, to install and use the plugin is this:

npm i          # to install dependencies
npm run dev    # to start compilation in watch mode

See also https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-sample-plugin#how-to-use

Though after compiling I can just reboot my pc and have the plugin work, so I thought the plugin should just work as-is, when the main.js is created, but this is apparently not the case...

Will have to look into this further, I'm not a nodejs guru.

I'm sorry, I just found the error. I was running everything on my HDD instead of my SSD. I normally work with virtual environments in the HDD so it took me a while to notice. Once I gave it a try and did what you mentioned, it worked. Thank you again for helping me out!

[welpdx]

to anyone who had this error when trying to get dataview working for obsidian-html:

this is what worked for me:

cd /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugin/
git clone https://github.com/obsidian-html/obs.html
cd obs.html
sudo apt install npm
sudo apt install -y nodejs
sudo npm install -g typescript
npm i
npm run dev

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