How to recompile plugin?!

[holroy]

If I try to just recompile your plugin in a fork of mine, it fails when trying to be loaded in Obsidian 1.5.12. Which steps are needed to take?

I tried doing:

• Fork the repository using Github Desktop
• Run npm i
• Run either of npm run build or npm run dev
• Copy the main.js & co to my .obsidian/plugins/css-editor folder
• Enable the css-editor, and I get this message:

app.js:1 Plugin failure: css-editor TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'deserialize')
    at l (app.js:1:1944740)
    at new t (app.js:1:1944962)
    at t.deserialize (app.js:1:1949264)
    at anonymous (plugin:css-editor:8450:35)
    at e.<anonymous> (app.js:1:2243790)
    at app.js:1:237056
    at Object.next (app.js:1:237161)
    at a (app.js:1:235879)

Do you have any suggestion on what I'm doing wrong?

[Zachatoo]

Do you also have a manifest.json file in that folder, as documented here? That file is required for a plugin to work.

Less likely, but maybe you're running an older version of node? The build works for me on the LTS version (20.12.1). Though I tried it on 16.17.0 as well and that also worked.

[holroy]

I'm not sure what really happened, but I fiddled around, cloned/downloaded/..., and now it seems to work as expected at least when I'm doing the npm run dev. So I guess it's all good now.