How to check your config for errors. For absolute beginners.

Bob

I’m no developer (but I do love debbugging stuff :), so here are a list of dumb things I have needed to fix at various points

Check for missing commas at ends of line (I always add a comma, even if technically the code doesn’t need it)
Check for wrong types of Quotation marks. ie, " (double quotes) is not the same as ‘’ (two single quotes) but they look identical in some editors
Check for added spaces (and missing spaces)
Check CASE (Upper, lower, mixed) - Some modules are case sensitive, some less so.
Check your brackets/braces are completed

E3V3A

Being new to MM, JS, Node, etc myself, it would have been of great help to have some functional and pictorial description of the parts making up a MM Module. Basically an idiots-guide-to-making-your-own-module (and understanding what you are doing). I’d buy it!

cowboysdude

@E3V3A said in How to check your config for errors. For absolute beginners.:

Being new to MM, JS, Node, etc myself, it would have been of great help to have some functional and pictorial description of the parts making up a MM Module. Basically an idiots-guide-to-making-your-own-module (and understanding what you are doing). I’d buy it!

Dude until I started with MM I didn’t even know JS but Thanks to a great guy [he knows who he is] that I won’t mention because I don’t want to point people at him and have him overwhelmed with questions…he’s a busy kid :) At any rate I didn’t even know JS but if you want to build a module then look inside one and form your questions and ask them. Many people would be happy to help and explain it to help you out!

strawberry 3.141

@E3V3A Heres the official documentation https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/blob/master/modules/README.md

Heres a module template https://github.com/roramirez/MagicMirror-Module-Template

E3V3A

@strawberry-3.141 Yeah, Thanks. I saw that before, and have already added/corrected some Wiki info in the dev repo. (When is that dev gonna get merged to master, anyway?) Also looked at the Template… very useful.

strawberry 3.141

@E3V3A the next release should be on 1st of april