Hosting Local Version of KTL Broke Today

[eliw13]

Hi all - we've taken a copy of the repository and have been rocking with v0.32.0 of the KTL locally hosted on a web server and making our call out there instead of the GitHub repo. We do this so that updates to the KTL are not made without us first reviewing the release notes beforehand to ensure we do not impact customer experiences with any potential unintended bugs.

Today, after Knack's classic/next-gen outage, we noticed that our javascript was unable to reach out and grab some code, causing the KTL to make the app fail and refresh over and over again. Just wondering if we're the only ones experiencing this or if someone else has run into this issue?

[cortexrd]

@eliw13,

Some people have reported this to me today also. For them the solution was to:

1. Set the KTL version to blank "" in the loader

and/or

2. Clear their browser's cache

You can also manually set the KTL version to the most recent version: 0.38.1 but that's not recommended, unless you have specific reasons to do so.

If you still have the issue, email me so I can help you out and see why it's doing this: nd@ctrnd.com

Norm

[cortexrd]

Sorry @eliw13, I completely misread your issue. I guess it was a bit late when I wrote the above post.
So, you're saying that it's the Local mode that caused the looping? Your Prod app was ok, is that right?

Still, I'd like to know more and see what could have caused that.

Norm

[eliw13]

Hi Norm! Thanks for reaching out.

We took a copy of this repo and hosted it on a web server and was using a modified version of your KTL_Start.js initiating JavaScript to point to our locally hosted repo instead of GitHub. After doing some further digging, I think it might actually be an issue with how we have ours set up instead. I noticed in the KTL_Start.js file, there are some lines attempting to pull some CSS and JS from a server owned by you. I believe this is causing our Cross-Origin Read Blocking error. Seems like we'll need to do some investigation on our side.

Do you have others who locally host the KTL or do most or all of your users just pull from the repo?

[cortexrd]

Hi @eliw13,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'm glad to see we have another Local mode user!

I'd like to learn more about your specific use case, more specificly why you're running a customized KTL version.

To answer your question: yes, there are other Local mode users, but not many. To my knowledge, about 5 people are currently using this setup, though there could be more since I have no way to track it.

I'm convinced there's a straightforward solution for what you need. Rather than having you maintain a separate fork of the KTL (which would be a maintenance burden for you going forward), I'd prefer we find a more elegant approach that works within the standard KTL configuration.

Could you send me a private email (nd@ctrnd.com) so we can book a meeting to discuss this? That way I can better understand your requirements and we can work out a clean solution together.

Norm