local dev toolchain broken

[100ideas]

Current behavior

package.json scripts for starting development build in browser lead to exception that crashes app.

App.tsx#L140 in current master (374afb3) is part of the problem - the code tries to initializate an IPC channel using a nonexistant function that would otherwise have been passed in from the electron environment in window.__ELECTRON_ONLY in src/lib/electronOnly.ts; instead the latter code provides an empty object, which the code in App.tsx chokes on.

rolling back to commit 691a7bf fixes this problem. This was the earliest commit I saw before the failing code block was added to App.tsx: https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote.next/compare/691a7bf..374afb3c#diff-86963609bec6fda3d34233676d5ae33f6aa4b9bbe2758a10cd4863b704b37093

Please include some screenshots with the developer tools open (console tab) when you report a bug.

current master (at 374afb3):

last working commit (at 691a7bf):

Expected behavior

boostnote.next w/ live-reload loads in browser at localhost:3000 after following contribution instructions and running npm dev script to boot local server. related to #400, #397.

Steps to reproduce

1. in vanilla environment, follow the current readme.md instructions and try to start local development server
2. fail
3. $ git checkout 691a7bf
4. unfail

Environment

Desktop/Web

• Boost Note.next version: failing: 0.10.2; working: 0.9.1
• OS version and name: MacOS 10.15.7 node 14 chrome 86

[Rokt33r]

We're going to deprecate the browser version for now. So please try with npm run dev:electron and npm run dev:webpack. I'll update readme soon.