Platform not supported: linux

Article URL

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/quickstarts/onenote-quickstart

Issue

I’m trying to create a simple addin for OneNote Web on a Linux (Fedora30) host machine. I created sample application with genertor-office, but start:web action is throwing this error: Platform not supported: linux.

$ yo office

? Choose a project type: Office Add-in Task Pane project
? Choose a script type: JavaScript
? What do you want to name your add-in? My Office Add-in
? Which Office client application would you like to support? OneNote

Once project is created, run:

$ npm run start:web

> office-addin-taskpane-js@0.0.1 start:web /home/nigupta/temp/My Office Add-in
> office-addin-debugging start manifest.xml web

Debugging is being started...
App type: web
Unable to start the dev server. Error: Platform not supported: linux
Debugging started.

I thought creating addin for OneNote Web would be allowed from any OS?

[Fensterbank]

@TCourtneyOwen thanks for your explanation.

As for starting the dev-server, this is going to be a bit trickier, since we really don’t have any support for Linux at all.

Is there a chance to support Linux in the future? AFAIK you are already open-minded by supporting MacOS. Since Linux is widely used by web developers and since Add-in development is powered by web technologies without needing huge things like Visual Studio or similar anymore, I think more developers using Linux will make Office Add-ins in the future.

I did not find any other thread mentioning that error message, so maybe we could reopen that issue and keep it as a feature request?

[nitingupta910]

Thanks for detailed steps for starting dev server on Linux. I’m closing it for now but I would appreciate a more seamless Linux dev setup for Web/Office365 plugin work.