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Install gives a blank page

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Hi, I tried following the instructions to test forest admin on my app, but had several issues…

lumber login doesn’t do anything
when I launch yarn start in the generated app, I get this:

I also tried adding the lumber-forestadmin plugin but it didn’t change anything.

I’m confused…

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Created 4 years ago
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Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

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dylanhustedcommented, May 30, 2019

I had the same issue and just figured it out. What you’re seeing is actually expected - it’s your back office app at localhost:3000 (or whatever port you specified in setup). That’s not the admin panel URL.

I’m sure there is a better order of operations (reading now, it seems very redundant), but here is what worked for me:

After creating your app and running npm install, you need to install lumber-forestadmin from npm:

npm install --save lumber-forestadmin

Then, you need to sign in to forest, because lumber login failed for you as it did for me:

lumber run lumber-forestadmin:login

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction there @j1mmie (your command led me to that one).

Finally, I needed to run this command with my Forest account email as a param:

lumber install lumber-forestadmin --email [YOUR-FOREST-EMAIL]

No brackets of course. I found that command here: https://github.com/ForestAdmin/lumber/issues/224

After running that, I received the following output:

Forest Admin Installation

Create your admin panel: Hooray, installation success!

Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/[ID]`

That link in the output is your Forest admin panel, not localhost:3000.

Final Note:

If you specified a custom port in your lumber generate command, your Forest panel will fail to connect. It queries localhost:3000 by default. So, you need to set your localhost forest app to 3000, get in the admin panel, and then set a custom port in the panel and in your app after successfully connecting and logging in with 3000.

This was pretty crazy. Forest team, please update your docs.

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marcperrinpcommented, Jul 3, 2019

Hi,

Apologies if this wasn’t straight-forward!

Our installation walkthroughs are documented here (note that we are still finetuning our Docker installation, so there might still be blocking points in some cases).

Feel free to reopen this issue if you encounter other installation issues.