Failed to install insomnia-plugin-request-navigator

[NickRimmer]

Failed to install insomnia-plugin-request-navigator

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Additional Information
Error: Error invoking remote method 'installPlugin': Error: Yarn error {"type":"warning","data":"package.json: No license field"}
{"type":"error","data":"Received invalid response from npm."}

at a.invoke (node:electron/js2c/renderer_init:2:7723)
at async onSubmit (file:///C:/Users/605500423/AppData/Local/insomnia/app-2023.5.7/resources/app.asar/index-7770d3c9.js:195:513)

Originally posted by @tetsuhaut in #21 (comment)

[tetsuhaut]

Hi, any news ?

[tetsuhaut]

Is it maybe required to be logged in in insomnia to see the tabs?

[NickRimmer]

@tetsuhaut, nope, it should work without any registrations or logging in

[NickRimmer]

There is License information. So, the issue is with something different. Most probably Received invalid response from npm. means you cannot load NPM package information for some reason. It could be your local security settings (like custom root certificates). Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce it, I tried to remove/install the plugin - everything is working perfectly fine.

Can you try to install any other plugins?

[tetsuhaut]

Thank you for the hint.
Indeed, trying to install another plugin fails too.
I am behind a corporate proxy, that is probably the reason why the install fails.
Do you know how I could display what Insomnia tries to have the Received invalid response from npm. response? Is there a verbose mode for example?

I'll open an issue on the Insomnia side as well.

[tetsuhaut]

juste another question: do you know how I can install manually your plugin? I tried npm install insomnia-plugin-request-navigator, got the response

npm info using npm@10.1.0
npm info using node@v20.7.0
npm verb title npm i insomnia-plugin-request-navigator
npm verb argv "i" "insomnia-plugin-request-navigator" "--loglevel" "verbose"
npm verb logfile logs-max:10 dir:C:\Users\605500423\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2023-09-27T15_11_08_256Z-
npm verb logfile C:\Users\605500423\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2023-09-27T15_11_08_256Z-debug-0.log
npm http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/insomnia-plugin-request-navigator 25ms (cache hit)
npm http fetch POST 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/-/npm/v1/security/advisories/bulk 339ms

up to date, audited 19 packages in 876ms

found 0 vulnerabilities
npm verb exit 0
npm info ok

and found nothing in %PROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Insomnia\plugins :(

[NickRimmer]

insomnia-plugin-request-navigator.zip

@tetsuhaut here is built version you can just copy to plugins folder. Folder path should be like this C:\Users\USER\AppData\Roaming\Insomnia\plugins\insomnia-plugin-request-navigator

[tetsuhaut]

unzipping the file you provided to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Insomnia\plugins\insomnia-plugin-request-navigator did the trick. Many thanks!

It would be great if you provided instructions on how to build your plugin (e.g. in https://github.com/NickRimmer/insomnia-plugin-request-navigator/blob/main/README.md), so that I am able to keep using it after potential updates.
Anyway, it works now!

[Saphyel]

I installed insomnia using snap and I can't install the plugin as well

[NickRimmer]

Hey! Just a heads-up that I'm closing old tickets and archiving this repo. I've started working on my own client, where I'll be applying all the ideas I wanted to bring here 😊

It's called RestApia. Feel free to check it out!