Troubleshooting Guide
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In this page, we will describe how to solve some known issues related to Monaca Localkit.
When installing Monaca Localkit on Windows, the following screen might show up preventing you from installing the Localkit.
In order to solve this problem, click More Info. Then, click the Run Anyway button.
When installing Monaca Localkit in Mac OS X, the following screen might show up preventing you from installing the Localkit.
In order to solve this problem, do as follows:
Open the System Preferences and go to Security & Privacy.
Click Open Anyway.
3. Now, try installing the app again. It should work on this time.
While uninstalling Monaca Localkit, you might not be able to remove its remaining files. In this case, please remove them manually from Program Files folder.
Monaca/Cordova projects initially consist of the following files and folders:
File/Folder | Description |
| Storage folder for the main body of the application |
| Cordova configuration file |
In this section, we will talk about how to fix your project if the www/ or config.xml file is missing.
The user should create a www folder in the root of the project or restore a previous backup of the folder.
www folder will be created automatically during the transpiling process. Transpiling is triggered automatically after selecting a project from the project list in the Monaca Localkit if the option is enabled.
This solution works only if your project exists on Monaca Cloud.
From Localkit, select a project from the project list.
Click Download and the config.xml file will be restored.
The problem might be occured with Localkit 4.1.0 and up. Prior to this version, the preview window is served with file:// protocol from the project file. However, this file:// is not supported for project using module javascript such as the project using vite tool. Therefore, in Localkit 4.1.0, we have switched to http:// protocol to support newer tool and framework. With this change, there might be some browser cache problems causing the preview windows to remember the previous served projects not the current one as the url is using the same address (by default http://127.0.0.1:8002/) for all the projects.
To resolve this problem, you can "disable cache" in the chrome developer tools of the preview window and click "refresh" to reload the preview window when needed.
This error might occur on the windows environment when you using nvm version <= 1.1.7 and npm version 8.x.x. This issue is already reported and resolved in NPM github issue - https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/4234.
To resolve this issue, please following steps:
Upgrade nvm to the latest version
as the time of this writing 1.1.9 - https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows/releases/download/1.1.9/nvm-setup.exe
Install the exe and follow the steps
Restart the PC if neccessary
Open PowerShell with Run As Administrator priviledge
re-install node version, for example
nvm uninstall 16.18.0
nvm install 16.18.0
nvm use 16.18.0
Close and open Localkit again
Check the startup log and make sure the node/npm version is correct
