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Invalid string length error thrown

See original GitHub issue

Is this a bug report?

Yes

After running react-script for a while, I get an exception thrown with the stacktrace:

/Users/will/Code/collect/node_modules/webpack/lib/Stats.js:221
                                        text += `\n @ ${current.readableIdentifier(requestShortener)}`;
                                                                ^

RangeError: Invalid string length
    at formatError (/Users/will/Code/collect/node_modules/webpack/lib/Stats.js:221:30)
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at Stats.toJson (/Users/will/Code/collect/node_modules/webpack/lib/Stats.js:229:56)
    at Compiler.<anonymous> (/Users/will/Code/collect/node_modules/html-webpack-plugin/index.js:68:44)
    at Compiler.applyPluginsAsyncSeries (/Users/will/Code/collect/node_modules/tapable/lib/Tapable.js:206:13)
    at Compiler.emitAssets (/Users/will/Code/collect/node_modules/webpack/lib/C

Did you try recovering your dependencies?

Yes

Which terms did you search for in User Guide?

invalid string length

Environment

node -v: v8.4.0
yarn --version (if you use Yarn): 1.3.2
npm ls react-scripts (if you haven’t ejected): 1.1.1

Then, specify:

Operating system: Mac os
Browser and version (if relevant): n/a

Steps to Reproduce

(Write your steps here:)

run yarn start
make a few changes, causing recompliation
wait until the error happens

Expected Behavior

This shouldn’t happen

Actual Behavior

The error above gets thrown into the terminal, and the process stops.

I’ve seen this error reported in a few different repos:

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Timercommented, Mar 5, 2018

Very weird – we’re upgrading to webpack 4 soon and discontinuing use of webpack-dev-server, so hopefully this goes away in 2.x.

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reohjscommented, Feb 26, 2018

I also had this issue, though I’m not using create-react-app, just webpack-dev-server.

It seems be working after changing the devtool option to something else, and then back again, in the webpack config & freeing up some RAM

Node: 8.9.5 OS: Win 7

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