Hey Everyone,
We’re preparing to make some changes to improve the reliability of the Zendesk Apps Framework on 6 December, 2021. While these changes will not be visible to Zendesk users, developers currently using ZCLI may experience issues with testing apps locally.
What do I need to do?
Once our changes to the Zendesk Apps Framework are released, if you are a ZCLI user and experience issues with testing apps locally you will need to update to the latest version of ZCLI (1.0.0-beta.15) which will be released alongside the ZAF changes.
To update ZCLI, you can run the following command from your terminal:
npm update -g @zendesk/zcli
What about ZAT?
Developers currently using Zendesk Apps Tools (ZAT) will not be affected by these changes and can continue using the tool without issue.
5 comments
Zach Anthony
Hi Thomas,
Apologies, it looks like we incorrectly released these changes ahead of schedule as part of another change. We have since rolled these back and will proceed as planned with the release on December 6.
Local testing should be now working for you again with ZCLI, but please let us know if there continues to be any issues.
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Aron Diploma
Hey,
How to know if Zendesk is in development mode when adding zcli_apps=true in the URL?
Suddenly ZCLI not working in my environment. I run the command zcli apps:server ./dist and the output is `Apps server is running on http://localhost:4567`. But when I check in netstat there is no application using port 4567. Unlike using ZAT, it is visible in netstat.
Using either ZCLI or ZAT it seems Zendesk doesn't load into development mode.
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Raven Agape
I am having the same issue. I updated using the command above and it did not resolve it.
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Yosef Cohen
Also having this issue starting today (Jan 25th 2023)
For both ZAT and ZCLI
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Zach Anthony
Hey everyone, I can confirm that the issues you experienced from January 25th are not related to the breaking change announced in this article and have since been resolved. You can follow this post for more details.
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