Problems with initialize and update functions

Armando · 2022-02-08T09:02:14.838Z

Hi there,

I’ve been developing plugins in bubble for quite a while now, today I’ve stumbled upon a problem that I have been experiencing every now and then.

When developing my plugins sometimes the initialize and update functions won’t run anymore. The element is visible and I’m just doing a simple console.log() to see if the functions will run but they don’t log anything.

The solution that I used in the past is to create a new plugin and just copy paste the code. However in this case it’s a plugin that is already published on several apps.

Has anyone ever experienced this problem, if so how did you solve it?

samsonlcl · 2022-06-08T07:25:33.876Z

Hi @Armando

I have experienced your issue and quite confused. One of my solutions is to use the inspect function to check the properties (like below)

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Another point I think is the client or server side action type. I think it also affects the use of console.log() function.

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Hope this will help you!

Armando · 2023-08-09T14:57:10.134Z

My mistake was that my IDE automatically formats my code. In every case this is desired, however my function does not contain a name and the IDE will automatically put a space behind the ‘function’ keyword: function (instance, properties, context) { should be function(instance, properties, context) { (notice the space between ‘function’ and ‘(’ ).

This is what broke my function and is something to keep in mind for others when looking over things.

adm · 2023-09-05T12:36:45.621Z

Armando:

function(instance, properties, context) {

thanks!