Node-red-contrib-themes won't install

Dashboard
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Problems:

  • When I try to use the dashboard/Theme/Style/Dark, it doesn't work
  • When I try to use the dashboard/Site/Always show side menu, it doesn't work

After changing those setting, I always do a full Deploy.

I have noticed that node-red-contrib-themes is not installed. Would that explain the problem that I see?

When I try to install @node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection, I get the following log:

2022-12-01T02:06:31.359Z Install : @node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection 3.0.6

2022-12-01T02:06:30.334Z npm install --no-audit --no-update-notifier --no-fund --save --save-prefix=~ --production --engine-strict @node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection@3.0.6
2022-12-01T02:06:31.635Z [err] npm
2022-12-01T02:06:31.635Z [err]
2022-12-01T02:06:31.636Z [err] WARN config production Use --omit=dev instead.
2022-12-01T02:06:35.036Z [out]
2022-12-01T02:06:35.036Z [out] up to date in 3s
2022-12-01T02:06:35.063Z rc=0

In a terminal window, if I execute the npm install... command above with the --omit=dev, node red still show the node-red-contrib-themes not installed.

My setup is a Raspberry Pi 4 running OpenPlotter and SignalK with latest versions. SignalK has the pluggin @signalk/signalk-node-red with latest version 2.12.0.
Node red version 2.1.6
npm version 9.1.3
I see the same behavior between Chome, Edge, Chromium

Any idea how to fix those problems?

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When I try to install @node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection

from which directory did you execute the npm install ?

Do those themes even work for dashboard ?
I thought those themes were only for the node-red editor and it requires a change in settings.js where you actually set the theme, eg.

editorTheme: {
    theme: "midnight-red-scroll"
},

and that will require a restart of node-red.

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Indeed - the editor themes are nothing to do with the dashboard theme. As well as deploying you may have to fully reload the client web page - including possibly flushing the cache.

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I ran the npm install from the /home/pi Is there a specific place to run npm?

For the Dark theme, it seem to work as shown in the video Node-Red Dashboard Tutorial - YouTube at time 3:54 and 4:08
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Clearing and reloading the client web page doesn't fix the issue.

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Not sure what your issue is now... that screenshot shows the default dark theme is working...

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You must run it from your .node-red folder (or the equivalent if you are using Docker or non-standard install).

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