cannot login with quip-cli

[markwharton]

Hello, I created a personal Quip account and followed the instructions to install and run quip-cli on a Mac v10.14.6.

I installed without any problem. Unfortunately, I cannot login (tried quip-cli and qla login)...

Client

First attempt

$ quip-cli --version
> quip-cli/0.1.1 darwin-x64 node-v14.5.0
$ quip-cli login

Second attempt

$ qla --version
> quip-cli/0.1.1 darwin-x64 node-v14.5.0
$ qla login

Browser

Same result for both

Page not found

Please check the URL or return to quip.com.

The URL looks something like this: https://quip.com/cli/login?client_id=quip-cli... and client waits indefinitely.

I checked https://www.npmjs.com/package/quip-cli, and found the --site option, but that doesn't help. I can't find any documentation or issues, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[jesseditson]

The new tools are is still only available to limited customers, so what you're seeing is expected for now - we'll update our public documentation once this goes live for everyone, in the meantime our existing flow (create-quip-app) is forward compatible with the new stuff, so you should be able to get started using that.

[markwharton]

Thanks Jesse, unfortunately create-quip-app is not working for me. Confused by your comment, does it mean documentation and tools are out of sync?

[jesseditson]

the master branch of this repo contains prerelease code, which may not work with the public version of Quip yet - in this case, quip-cli is a new tool and there is no public version.

Our documentation is still accurate, but a prior version of create-quip-app (v0.0.46) prematurely removed the pack command, which may be why your app isn't building. This was resolved in v0.1.1, but apps using the template will still have the old build command. We will continue to support create-quip-app until we update the public documentation.

Thanks for bearing with us during this transition!