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Bug: Stuck on "Starting the development server" when parent folder contains '#'

Open WeebNetsu opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

React version: 17.0.2

Steps To Reproduce

  1. Create folder with '#' in name ie: mkdir myfolder/#trash/
  2. Create react app in folder: npx create-react-app myApp
  3. Start app: npm start

The current behavior

Gets stuck on "Starting the development server..." forever

The expected behavior

It should start and run the app as expected when creating a new app or warn you about invalid parent directory name

WeebNetsu avatar Mar 08 '22 18:03 WeebNetsu

I have encountered this issue too. The following stackoverflow-post pointed me too this issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58743333/react-app-stuck-on-starting-the-development-server

Konwn affected version of react-scripts: > 5.0.0 Known unaffected version of react-scripts: 4.0.3

OS: macOS 12.4 (21F79) Computer: MacBookPro15,1 Node version: 18.3.0 React version: 17.0.2

The issue occured for me in a project from 3. november 2018, so not a new project in my case.

superspeed500 avatar Jun 10 '22 20:06 superspeed500

Happens to me as well. I'm on Node 16 M1 Macbook Pro.

allroundexperts avatar Oct 12 '22 16:10 allroundexperts