# Running Kibana 4 in development mode **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 25, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328 "2017-08-25T05:39:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tarun\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tarun_kumar/32/65948_2.png) [@tarun\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tarun_kumar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328/1 "2017-08-25T05:39:58Z")
Hi All, I am building Kibana plugin and for that I have to iteratively do the re-deploying my plugin to installed plugin folder and restart kibana each time. It seems running kibana in dev mode would help in not restart kibana each time but i am not able to do run Kibana in dev mode. > bin/kibana --dev would give below error: > ERROR Extra serve options "--dev" must have a value ---
**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328/2 "2017-08-25T05:44:27Z")
for development you should clone our github repository [https://github.com/elastic/kibana](https://github.com/elastic/kibana) and follow the instructions in [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/4.6/CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/blob/4.6/CONTRIBUTING.md) on setting up your dev environment ---
**Author:** ![tarun\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tarun_kumar/32/65948_2.png) [@tarun\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tarun_kumar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328/4 "2017-08-25T06:50:13Z")
I downloaded Kibana-4.4.2 (as per our es production compatible version) [GitHub - elastic/kibana at v4.4.2](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/tree/v4.4.2) I did not find config/kibana.dev.yml file. Will i have to add kibana.dev.yml manually? Nevertheless (without kibana.dev.yml) , i did straight away start and below is error when i did npm start as per contribution kibana page: user@user:~/Desktop/Tarun-Handover/kibana-4.4.2$ npm start > kibana@4.4.2 start /home/user/Desktop/Tarun-Handover/kibana-4.4.2 > ./bin/kibana --dev for complete error please check this link: > [https://pastebin.com/KdxuYsQk](https://pastebin.com/KdxuYsQk) especially concerned about less file giving below issue for app\_switcher (complete in above pastebin): > ERROR in ./src/ui/public/chrome/directives/app\_switcher/app\_switcher.less > Module build failed: ModuleBuildError: Module build failed: URIError: URI malformed > at decodeURIComponent (native) > at /home/user/Desktop/Tarun-Handover/kibana-4.4.2/node\_modules/loader-utils/index.js:113:12 On ctrl+c > npm ERR! Linux 3.16.0-30-generic > npm ERR! argv "/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v4.3.2/bin/node" "/home/user/.nvm/versions/node/v4.3.2/bin/npm" "start" > npm ERR! node v4.3.2 > npm ERR! npm v3.10.9 > npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE > npm ERR! kibana@4.4.2 start: `./bin/kibana --dev` > npm ERR! Exit status 130 > npm ERR! > npm ERR! Failed at the kibana@4.4.2 start script './bin/kibana --dev'. > npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. > npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the kibana package, > npm ERR! not with npm itself. > npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: > npm ERR! ./bin/kibana --dev > npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: > npm ERR! npm bugs kibana > npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via: > npm ERR! npm owner ls kibana > npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above. npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request: npm ERR! /home/user/Desktop/Tarun-Handover/kibana-4.4.2/npm-debug.log ---
**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328/5 "2017-08-25T07:57:40Z")
seems that version of kibana is broken at the moment, there is a work around mentioned in this issue: > ---
**Author:** ![tarun\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tarun_kumar/32/65948_2.png) [@tarun\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tarun_kumar)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2017, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328/6 "2017-08-28T05:15:03Z")
hi @ppisljar, it seems the suggestion wont work for kibana-4.4.2 and may have worked kibana-4.5.0 Please check this link as well in this case seems no solution found?: > Here , details on node\_modules/autoprefixer-loader/package.json :- dependencies": { "autoprefixer-core": "^5.1.0", "loader-utils": "^0.2.5", "postcss": "^4.1.11" }, So, they are asking for downgrading loader-utils version from 0.2.14 to 0.2.13 but mine is already 0.2.5 should i upgrade or down grade ? ---
**Author:** ![tarun\_kumar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tarun_kumar/32/65948_2.png) [@tarun\_kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tarun_kumar)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328/7 "2017-08-31T05:43:37Z")
anyone, would like to suggest on this? I have also posted my query here [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6885#issuecomment-326208738](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/6885#issuecomment-326208738) as user tarunz001 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/running-kibana-4-in-development-mode/98328/8 "2017-09-28T05:43:51Z")
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