Front end support documentation

Hey everybody, I can’t find any documentation on the front end support that was released recently, Is that correct? I don’t have a lot of experience with Node and would love a walkthrough.

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There are some docs linked here: Frontend Support is here!

You’d need to have node installed first though. I’ll add some details on this for you when I get a moment.

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ah thank you. I checked out the links at the developer center but didn’t expect it under getting started

No prob. Actually this should probably do the trick for the node install: https://nodesource.com/blog/installing-nodejs-tutorial-mac-os-x/

(@alexa.smith re links to front end docs.)

currently when I try to run dfx start it keeps starting over and over giving this error.

thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to recover from a checkpoint @6032 on start: Error { code: Internal, description: "Failed to open file /var/folders/ly/ss119xwj7q1772tfr84zs1rc0000gp/T/checkpoints/0000000000001790/system_metadata.cbor for read: No such file or directory (os error 2)" }. One way to proceed is to remove the unrecoverable checkpoint located at /var/folders/ly/ss119xwj7q1772tfr84zs1rc0000gp/T/checkpoints/0000000000001790', state_manager/src/lib.rs:88:25

any idea what might be causing it?

That’s our old friend, the checkpoints in the temp folder issue again:

https://forum.dfinity.org/t/bug-failed-to-compile-wasm-that-is-known-to-be-good/270/3
and
https://forum.dfinity.org/t/getting-an-error-when-trying-to-install-my-cannister/271/10

@Fulco You can also follow the checkpoints management video I made this week if you need help finding them.

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Thanks Comp_Sci! Yes, this one > How to fix the main reason for SDK upgrade issues

Docs will be updated with more details on front-end soon! In the meantime, you can continue to track @enzo’s progress on the “LinkedUp” app here: https://github.com/dfinity-lab/linkedup :slight_smile:

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Thank you that’s a great resource!

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