Hi, I am testing growthbook pro in the self hosted...
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victorious-butcher-8077
06/26/2024, 7:59 AMHi, I am testing growthbook pro in the self hosted version - but I fail to use the visual editor. I think I have entered everything in the Chrome Extention but the editor does not come up and instead throws a "Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token (at visual_editor.js210118)" error in the chrome dev tools console. Any idea why that might be the case?
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fresh-football-47124
06/26/2024, 11:44 PM
Hi Bernhard - can you share any more info on this? Can you share or DM me the site you're trying this on?
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victorious-butcher-8077
06/28/2024, 9:26 AMSure, maybe its a conceptual thing 🙂 as I am just testing, I have set up posthog in a local docket container, so my posthog API is localhost:3100 or something similar. Then I installed the chrome extension and entered the data I got from creating a new API key. I tried to add the snippet to a HTML page hosted locally, but then also on some test server of us:
<script async
data-api-host="http://localhost:3100"
data-client-key="sdk-gq..."
src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@growthbook/growthbook/dist/bundles/auto.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.tailwindcss.com"></script>
</head>
Then when I open the page, I can see the extension is working (being colored, not grey) - but I get the error in the console, and no option to modify anything
victorious-butcher-8077
06/30/2024, 7:01 PMok - interesting, I just tried it again, no error message now. Weird...but I still dont get the visual editor screen as seen here: https://blog.growthbook.io/visual-editor/
victorious-butcher-8077
07/01/2024, 7:56 AMI also do get this:
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fresh-football-47124
07/01/2024, 9:06 AM
is the website you're looking to load the visual editor on public?
fresh-football-47124
07/01/2024, 9:06 AM
The editor itself just requires the dev tools to work - the SDK is needed to launch and run the experiment, but not to set it up
fresh-football-47124
07/01/2024, 9:07 AM
If you can share the website name, we can take a look, see if we can reproduce it
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victorious-butcher-8077
07/01/2024, 11:15 AMsure: https://vmax2.maxodus.com/test/index3.html it's just a very basic sample page from tailwindui
victorious-butcher-8077
07/01/2024, 2:29 PMok I changed it to be a super simple page (no tailwind, just some text) - and the syntax error is back, now
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fresh-football-47124
07/02/2024, 4:05 AM
huh
fresh-football-47124
07/02/2024, 4:06 AM
I can reproduce it with your site
fresh-football-47124
07/02/2024, 4:06 AM
I'll ask the team to take a look
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victorious-butcher-8077
07/02/2024, 10:03 AMthank you :)
victorious-butcher-8077
07/05/2024, 11:18 AMso, the trial premium is running out soon, any idea whats keeping the visual editor from working in my case?
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fresh-football-47124
07/08/2024, 5:03 AM
Hi Bernhard - i'm raising the issue with my team still
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victorious-butcher-8077
07/08/2024, 11:42 AMOK, thank you 🙂
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fresh-football-47124
07/08/2024, 9:40 PM
Okay - we figured out what was going on, and a fix is in review right now
fresh-football-47124
07/08/2024, 9:41 PM
sometimes takes Google a little bit to publish changes to a chrome tool
fresh-football-47124
07/08/2024, 9:49 PM
in the mean time, you could add a meta tag: <meta charset="utf-8">
fresh-football-47124
07/08/2024, 9:49 PM
to the head
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victorious-butcher-8077
07/09/2024, 7:55 AMsure, one sec 🙂
victorious-butcher-8077
07/09/2024, 8:11 AMperfect, the console error is gone now. I can now open the visual editor for the page 🙂
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