Workbench completely blank - displays nothing!

[nigel-dewar]

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Brand new setup - installed all the tools, no errors, run gulp cert install or whatever it is to install the dev cert which worked. Fire up using gulp serve and........ nothing.

Expected or Desired Behavior

Workbench to actually show something.

Observed Behavior

workbench shows nothing

Steps to Reproduce

get a windows 10 pro machine
Install everything include node 8.15 from scratch
NPM 6.4.1
Run it all up and observe the epic failure

I get the following dialog when running gulp serve - all looks well

browser fires up blank however, the final output of gulp serve is

Its quite amazing that this product can be so useless. I tried spfx a year or so ago and got the same BS. So I thought this beta crap and left it in the hopes that microsoft devs would get their act together. Now I try on a completely different machine and SAME AGAIN!

see my post from a year ago #1241

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[VesaJuvonen]

Thx @nigel-dewar for reporting, we would need more details on your environment to be able to build a repro for this. Which browser (+version) you are using?

[andrewconnell]

I've seen this before too... delete your node_modules folder, delete any lock files and run npm install again.

Also:

• is this a brand new project or an old project?
• can you post more from the console log as there are other things that could be showing up that aren't captured in your logs
• any issues in the browser's console?

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[nick-gaudreau]

@nigel-dewar Hi. You have to set your workbench url in config/serve.json property initialPage.... your workbench url should look like this:
https://{ReplaceWithYourDomainName}.sharepoint.com/sites/{AnySiteNameOfYours}/_layouts/15/workbench.aspx

[nick-gaudreau]

@nigel-dewar Then when you do your gulp serve, the workbench page will open requesting to signin with your account then click the +, select your web part

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