application.js:1095 Uncaught ReferenceError: Invalid left-hand side in assignment about mkdocs-material

[squidfunk]

Thank you for the notice, I will investigate.

[squidfunk]

I cannot reproduce this issue. What I tried:

mkdocs new test
cd test
git clone [email protected]:squidfunk/mkdocs-material.git
echo "theme_dir: mkdocs-material/material" >> mkdocs.yml
mkdocs serve

Then go to localhost:8000 and everything's working fine, no error in the console. I even tried checking out the latest release 0.2.4, but also, no error. Can you elaborate on what you did exactly?

[markallasread]

I see what the issue is now — sort of, here's what I was doing:

git clone [email protected]:squidfunk/mkdocs-material.git
cd mkdocs-material
mkdocs serve

Everything would work aside from search.

I just assumed that was appropriate because a) the mkdocs.yml in that folder references 'material', a folder within the cloned repo.

Cloning it into a subfolder like you've got setup sorts it outright.
Solved.

[squidfunk]

Could you please give some more details on the browser and operating system you are using when you encountered the error, because the thing you did should work as well. Thank you!

[markallasread]

Macosx (latest non-beta). Chrome. Safari, all browsers — same issue.
I am making one modification to a core file — that is, nav.html — and rebuilding the theme using the commands you've provided. Doing my mod. with the pip version works fine, just not the cloned version.

The npm process does output a few warnings which look like the culprit:

npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.

It really does look like whatever's going wrong is during the gulp build --production process (minification failure?) — I copied the application.js over from the pip installed variant & it's good to go.

For ref — obv. the application.js file name will differ lightly, but my fix for now:

cp /usr/local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/material/assets/javascripts/application.js application-85b9f474c2.js

[squidfunk]

The npm warnings should be no problem, they are generated by the dependencies of the packages the theme is using. However, I can now finally reproduce the error! It originates in the pegasus library which is used to load the search JSON file:

1095: pegasus.timeout && xhr.timeout = pegasus.timeout;

This change was introduced in 0.3.4. I pinned the version to 0.3.3, as this change was introduced in 0.3.4. With Material 1.0.0 there will be no need for pegasus, so as a temporary fix this should be okay.

Thank you for your cooperation!

[markallasread]

Most excellent! Thanks for your persistence & all your effort with the project — <3