No charts when building from source...

[bserrao]

Hello,
I'm running linux Gentoo which is a src based distribution. So i was trying to make a fava package, which is easier for me to keep track of updates and depencies trough the distro package manager instead of having a mix of pip and PM packages.
I get no errors when building or running fava, but i'm unable to see the charts.
If i install fava trough pip, all dependencies are satisfied and i'm able to see the charts.
Any clue to what might be causing this behaviour?

Thanks

[adamgibbins]

How're you building fava? This sounds like perhaps you didn't run make to generate the static assets?

[bserrao]

At first i was missing that, but i got errors when running because of missing files...
i'm running make and then /usr/bin/python3.5 setup.py build

Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/www-apps/fava-1.6/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/www-apps/fava-1.6/work/fava-1.6 ...
rm -f fava/static/package-lock.json
cd fava/static; npm install; npm run build

...

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.1.3: wanted {"os":"darwin","arc
h":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"x64"})
[..................] - : info using node@v6.11.5^M
> fava@0.0.0 build /var/tmp/portage/www-apps/fava-1.6/work/fava-1.6/fava/static
> rollup -c

javascript/main.js → gen/app.js...
created gen/app.js in 8.7s

* Running on http://localhost:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:24] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:24] "GET /my-personal-ledger/ HTTP/1.1" 302 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:25] "GET /my-personal-ledger/income_statement/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:26] "GET /static/gen/app.js HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:26] "GET /static/gen/style.css HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:27] "GET /static/gen/d05a8f7795be2852.woff HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:27] "GET /static/gen/6846a5be7c8e6f60.woff HTTP/1.1" 200 -
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2018 18:26:27] "GET /static/gen/a155641debd0b546.woff HTTP/1.1" 200 

[yagebu]

It might be better to use the source dist or wheel from PyPI for a package of the latest release of Fava. With anything using Node, it's quite impossible to avoid breakage when building at a later point in my experience. Completely fixing the dependencies might avoid some of that, but I'd rather keep up-to-date continuously.

The AUR package for Fava seemed to have a similar problem: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fava/