Hello, I am trying to create a new Datasource Plugin by using the @grafana/toolkit as described there, to test it with the newly-released Grafana 7.0. The first three steps work as expected, however running yarn dev throws a TypeError as shown below: [Anmerkung 2020-05-19 095135] After googlin…

There’s a change in the 7.0.0 release version of toolkit that should fix this issue (does for me anyway), so just double check that you have that version of toolkit @grafana/toolkit: Use process.cwd() instead of PWD to get directory grafana:master …

It was set to “next” in package.json when I tested it yesterday, so I assume it was the 7.0.0. However, since the code looked different from the commit in the Git issue you linked, I set it to 7.0.0 manually, deleted node_modules and and ran yarn install again; it was then fine.

TypeError when creating Datasource Plugin with Grafana Toolkit

Grafana Plugin Development

marcusolsson May 19, 2020, 11:34am 2

I believe this is an issue with the Powershell/Windows command-line. Check out the answer in this post.

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TypeError when creating Datasource Plugin with Grafana Toolkit

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