White screen while running Risk game - TotalRisk-1.2.98 about totalrisk HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello Dalan!

I think these are actually two different problems. First problem is the blank screen, the second problem is the spamming of errors in the terminal. These two things are not realated though.

First, pull the latest changes (I made some small changes in 1.2.99). Then run "npm install" (this will install a newer electron version)

Problem 1
It looks like you simply have forgotten to build the project. The project doesn't find the necessary built files (app.bundle.js and default.css) which is why these are red in the network tab. To build simply run:

grunt

If this doesn't work that means you don't have grunt installed globally. In that case first run:

npm install --global grunt grunt-cli

After you have built the app you can run it normally ("npm start" in one terminal and then "npm run electron:dev" in another)

Problem 2

After a bit of digging I just found out how you may stop the flooding of error messages of "Could not instantiate: ProductRegistryImpl.Registry....".

As I suspected it has something to do with chrome web tools within the electron application. But it doesn't seem to be a blocker. I managed to reproduce it but I could still run the game and everything. It's just kind of annoying.

These errors seem to have to do with the "network" tab in web tools. If you open the game and it starts of in "network" tab, the errors come. So instead switch to for instance "console" tab, then close the game, and start it again. It should now remain in console tab and the error messages should not come.

This is obviously an annoying problem, but like I said, it doesn't seem to block anything in the game, and it is up to electron to fix this on their side.

Resources:
electron/electron#14687
electron/electron#12185

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Please let me know if it worked out for you :)

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A coworker and I were trying all yesterday and this morning. We could not get npm start to show anything other than a white page.
I installed Ubuntu 19.04, install grunt globally, npm install npm start. Boom everything works. For the last few hours the office has been playing.

Sorry for the run around on my bad server.

One thing, your dice algorithm favors the AI it's brutal, I want to go to Vegas and have the AI roll craps for me.

Thank you.

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