Customize the frontend errors

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I tried to follow the tutorial at Customize the frontend, with dfx 0.13.1 and node.js v18.15.0, but got errors with local “dfx deploy”.

I figured out the problem. The name of the background canister changed from custom_greeting to custom_greeting_backend. Need to change it in index.jsx.

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Thanks for the report! I made this PR to fix it

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Thanks for the fix. Instead of fixing the instructions, why not fix dfx to create correct source code with dfx new?

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Fair question. We changed from the model of having canisters project and project_assets to project_backend and project_frontend because people (especially newcomers) kept getting confused about which canister has what function, and how to map that to the well-known frontend/backend. Since making this change in the dfx new project structure, we got far less questions, so I’d like to keep the current structure and adapt documentation instead.