DioxusLabs/dioxus · error · anyhow::Error

Error connecting to template repository. Try cloning the tem

Error message

Error connecting to template repository. Try cloning the template manually or add `dioxus` to a `cargo new` project.

What it means

Connectivity guard in check_connectivity (called from create): after retrying a GitHub probe with sleeps (and printing waiting warnings across up to 5 attempts), the connection to the template repository still could not be established, so fetching templates cannot continue. This fires when network access to github.com/dioxuslabs is unavailable, and the message offers manual cloning as the workaround.

Source

Thrown at packages/cli/src/cli/create.rs:280

                if res.is_ok() {
                    return Ok(());
                }
                tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(2000)).await;
            },
            _ = tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(if x == 1 { 500 } else { 2000 })) => {}
        }
        if x == 0 {
            eprintln!(
                "{GLOW_STYLE}warning{GLOW_STYLE:#}: Waiting for {LINK_STYLE}https://github.com/dioxuslabs{LINK_STYLE:#}..."
            )
        } else {
            eprintln!(
                "{GLOW_STYLE}warning{GLOW_STYLE:#}: ({x}/5) Taking a while, maybe your internet is down?"
            );
        }
    }

    bail!(
        "Error connecting to template repository. Try cloning the template manually or add `dioxus` to a `cargo new` project."
    )
}

// todo: re-enable these tests with better parallelization
//
// #[cfg(test)]
// pub(crate) mod tests {
//     use escargot::{CargoBuild, CargoRun};
//     use std::sync::LazyLock;
//     use std::fs::{create_dir_all, read_to_string};
//     use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
//     use std::process::Command;
//     use tempfile::tempdir;
//     use toml::Value;

//     static BINARY: LazyLock<CargoRun> = LazyLock::new(|| {
//         CargoBuild::new()

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Solutions

1. The template repository is unreachable. Check the network, clone the template manually, or add dioxus to a cargo new project.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/cli/src/cli/create.rs:280 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of DioxusLabs/dioxus@24f6a829df (2026-08-23). Data as JSON: /api/errors/d3a747a6af7d38d8. Report an issue: GitHub.