probot: HTTP server example does not work out of the box

Bug Report

Current Behavior Used the code from the example in documentation for app.route, I cannot hit the route and I see the server logging a 404.

Expected behavior/code The example to work as documented, allowing me to mount arbitrary http routes to be hit on my probot server.

Environment

Probot version(s): latest
Node/npm version: Node 10
OS: OSX mojave

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Quick note 📓 If you are attempting to auto-configure be sure that you start probot with the following

npm run dev

The process does not complete otherwise which means a manual config as @tcbyrd mentions ☝️

i-marsh on Feb 28, 2019

Oh hey I noticed your screenshot is says “to get started”, which means it’s loading the startup app that walks you through setting up your app on GitHub. Until that part is completed (or you manually configure all the environment variables), the routing won’t work since the app doesn’t have an App ID to startup with yet. Let me know if that helps at all!

tcbyrd on Feb 7, 2019

Also just recently ran into this. In fact, nothing I’ve tried for routing seems to work. I’ve tried node versions 9, 10, and 11.

tlmurphy on Nov 28, 2018