3.0.0 stuck on "Clear destination folder"

[NZainchkovskiy]

I'm using CRA application with react-scripts version 3.2.0.
cra-build-watch version 3.0.0.
When I execute npm run watch it do "Update webpack configuration" and "Clear destination folder" steps and then just do nothing. build folder is empty after running watch.
What I doing wrong?
Thank you!

[NZainchkovskiy]

Update - I'm dowgraded to 2.0.1 and now it's working. So it's some issue with new version maybe.

[Nargonath]

Alright, there seems to be a regression with 3.0.0 indeed. I'll have a look at it, thanks.

[Nargonath]

Hum I just did a test on a brand new create-react-app project with the code on master branch and also on the v3.0.0 tag but everything worked well for me. I wonder if the problem does not come from Windows.

[NZainchkovskiy]

I did the same test just now (brand new create-react-app) and it still stucks.
Different computers, windows only.
I can't test on linux now, but on windows 3.0.0 seems to be broken. Version 2.0.1 works just fine.

[Nargonath]

Thanks for your test.

I tested on OSX 10.14.6 on my part it works fine. I don't develop at all on Windows.

[NZainchkovskiy]

Maybe I can troubleshoot it somehow?
I think many developers with windows platforms has interest in your library.
I'm ready to provide any help for solving this issue, if you could give me some directions.

[Nargonath]

Thanks for your help, it is appreciated. 👍

I have to take some time and think this through so I can give you clear guidelines.

[Nargonath]

First I have a question for you, which version of node are you using?

Second, the v3.0.0 was mostly about upgrading dependencies hence the problem might come from one of them. You can find the list of the commits here: v2.0.1...v3.0.0. What you could be doing to debug this is:

• fork the repo
• checkout the v2.0.1 tag
• setup a fresh project of create-react-app
• link your local cra-build-watch fork to your fresh CRA project
• setup the watch script as you would if you had installed cra-build-watch within your CRA project
• run npm outdated in your local fork to get the list of all the outdated dependencies
• upgrade one
• run the watch script in your CRA project
• notice if the problem still appears or not
• if not then proceed to the next outdated dependency and so on until you find a culprit

What do you think?

[annakhloyan]

I'm using CRA application with react-scripts version 3.2.0.
cra-build-watch version 3.0.0.
When I execute npm run watch it do "Update webpack configuration" and "Clear destination folder" steps and then just do nothing. build folder is empty after running watch.
What I doing wrong?
Thank you!

I did the same test just now (brand new create-react-app) and it still stucks.
Different computers, windows only.
I can't test on linux now, but on windows 3.0.0 seems to be broken. Version 2.0.1 works just fine.

Have the same issue.
using 12.13.03 v of node.
Version 2.0.1 still not working

[Nargonath]

Thanks @annakhloyan for sharing. Currently I don't have the free time to really dig into this and I'm also not on Windows. I don't have a define solution for you as 2.0.1 does not work in your case. Does a plain CRA project works on node@12.13.03 on your setup?

[TJYSunset]

Having this issue too. I'm also on Windows (10 version 18362.418). 2.0.1 worked while 3.0 didn't work on a almost brand new typescript react project created with cra (just configured eslint, prettier & stylelint).

software	version
node	13.1.0
create-react-app/react-scripts	3.2.0
react	16.12.0
typescript	3.7.2

Sorry but I didn't have time to test it without typescript.

[wpdevteam]

Having the same issue as well on Windows 10. 2.0.1 worked while 3.0 didn't. 3.0 works fine on Linux (Ubuntu).

[Nargonath]

@wpdevteam thanks glad to hear it works on Linux. This definitely seems to be a problem with Windows. I wonder whether it comes from a TypeScript setup, are you using it with TS?

[hexnaught]

Hi guys.
3.0.0 was working fine for me on my work laptop (OSX).

At home I dev on windows and ran in to the same issues reported above.
(Win 10 v1909 BUILD 18363.535)

Tried with node version v10.16.3 and node version v13.6.0.

I am not using Typescript for my project, but appreaciate that react-scripts transpiles to TS iirc.

  "dependencies": {
    "@material-ui/core": "^4.5.0",
    "@material-ui/icons": "^4.4.3",
    "@octokit/rest": "^16.31.0",
    "express": "^4.17.1",
    "react": "^16.10.2",
    "react-dom": "^16.10.2",
    "react-scripts": "^3.2.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "cra-build-watch": "^3.0.0"
  }

Downgrading to v2.0.1 worked for me too.

[hexnaught]

@Nargonath I hope you don't mind, I have opened a PR above. It appears to have resolved the issue for me on Windows and the script still works for me on OSX. I don't have a machine with a flavour of linux on at the moment to test Ubuntu or similar.

Some details in the PR and feel free to @ me for anything else.

[Nargonath]

Good initiative @JokerDan . Glad you managed to find a solution. I'll try to take a look at it this weekend.

[Nargonath]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 3.1.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• npm package (@latest dist-tag)
• GitHub release

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