diff --git a/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/status-bar.tsx b/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/status-bar.tsx
index 09fce7d529..cd0fe99ee1 100644
--- a/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/status-bar.tsx
+++ b/apps/remix-ide/src/app/components/status-bar.tsx
@@ -42,10 +42,9 @@ export class StatusBar extends Plugin {
   }
 
   render() {
-    <div data-id="status-bar-container">
-      test
+    return (<div data-id="status-bar-container">
       <PluginViewWrapper plugin={this} />
-    </div>
+    </div>)
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx b/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx
index eea8701c60..3e0bdec00e 100644
--- a/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx
+++ b/libs/remix-ui/app/src/lib/remix-app/remix-app.tsx
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ const RemixApp = (props: IRemixAppUi) => {
     }
 
   }
-
+  console.log('statusbar', props.app.statusBar)
   return (
     //@ts-ignore
     <IntlProvider locale={locale.code} messages={locale.messages}>
diff --git a/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/components/gitStatus.tsx b/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/components/gitStatus.tsx
index 0aa9b5a6e6..84bb47f092 100644
--- a/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/components/gitStatus.tsx
+++ b/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/components/gitStatus.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import React from 'react'
 
+//use placeholder data to show the small section of the statusbar for git
 export default function GitStatus() {
   return (
     <div className="d-flex flex-row">
diff --git a/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/remixui-statusbar-panel.tsx b/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/remixui-statusbar-panel.tsx
index 1d4b7fca52..cba0915229 100644
--- a/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/remixui-statusbar-panel.tsx
+++ b/libs/remix-ui/statusbar/src/lib/remixui-statusbar-panel.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ export interface RemixUIStatusBarProps {
 }
 
 export function RemixUIStatusBar ({ statusBarPlugin }: RemixUIStatusBarProps) {
+
+  const getGitBranchName = async () => {
+    return new Promise((resolve, recject) => {
+      return 0
+    })
+  }
   return (
     <div className="d-flex flex-row bg-primary">
       <GitStatus />