Unable to set up Developer Rig

[BarryCarlyon]

@feedo

They are saying that you can test your extensions right away in the rig but that isn’t the case.

it is:

You set this entry Host your front-end files in the Project Details for your extension to a path/folder.
Leave Front-end Host Command Blank
Then hit Run Front End
The Rig then provides a web server to serve that folder of files. (which is essentially identical to the NodeJS Express static server thats included in my Blog Series)
The Rig then overrides the Developer Console settings to load the Extension Views defined from the Developer Rigs internal server instead

Theres no server fun times/ssl fun times to do on your part. You don’t even need XAMPP/whatever installed as the Rig will spool up a server internally to host with.

To quote from the blog post

@BarryCarlyon Extension Blog Series Part 5

The Developer Rig, will either just “dumb serve” a folder of static files, or you can give it a full command to run, handy for WebPack/React/JS things that people need to pre-compile first.

But the big thing it won’t do is SSL Termination so whilst you can easily test your extension in the Rig, you won’t be able to easily test it on Twitch, which is the purpose of this little Dev Environment.

Second paragraph talkes about the Rig/Site differences

@feedo

In your Tutorial you’re talking about nginx stuff and how to setup SSL certs for local testing.

For testing on the Twitch Website not in the Rig.

Which is why it’s in the “Just One More thing” part of the post. And it’s not required for testing in the Rig. Only for testing on the Twitch Website.