Issue starting for first time

[FrigoEU]

Hey, love the project and support excited about its future!

I had a problem first starting it though. Electron started, and I just got a blank white screen. After some debugging (I only managed it with npm run start), I found that I was missing a .oni folder. I had to make it manually.

I thought I'd let you know since it can be a real downer for first time starters to just get a blank screen.

[bryphe]

Thanks for the report @FrigoEU and for digging in to debug it!

Just a couple questions:

• Which platform is this?
• Which installer package did you use?

Appreciate the heads up!

[bryphe]

I'm not able to reproduce this with the Windows binary or with the Mac dmg - but let me know which platform you used. I'm wondering if it is there is a different configuration on my machine, or if I haven't tested the right platform. Thanks for your help!

[mixedCase]

I can reproduce this on Arch Linux. Had to create a ~ /.oni directory for it to work.

[FrigoEU]

I'm on OSX 10.11.4.

I started out building from source, got that error. Then I used the Mac dmg, same thing. I built from source a few more times, still the same thing. Then I started up the hot reload build, and immediately got the error in the dev tools so I finally found it like that.

I'm on a fairly ordinary system and don't think I have anything special set up anywhere. Really wish I could pinpoint the problem, sorry!

[keforbes]

I was able to reproduce this in Linux. Fixed in #347. Thanks for catching it!

@extr0py, since this affects a user's first impression of Oni I'd recommend rolling out a new release with the fix. 😄

[bryphe]

Thanks all for the details, and @keforbes for the quick fix! I'm able to reproduce it by removing my .oni folder. I'll pick up @keforbes fix ASAP and push out a new release.

[bryphe]

I'm hoping that #298 will help build a safety net for this in the fture - running a quick integration test where start up the app and validate some simple scenarios. This would've helped here since the build machines wouldn't have had a .oni folder

[bryphe]

Release has been updated: https://github.com/extr0py/oni/releases/tag/v0.2.2-recovery