"npm start" stops immediately when run as background job
See original GitHub issueDescribe the bug
On a fresh install of CRA, running npm start &
(in background) stops the job after hitting the Enter key.
Did you try recovering your dependencies?
n/a
Which terms did you search for in User Guide?
“background”
Environment
current version of create-react-app: 3.4.1 running from /Users/foo/.npm/_npx/78633/lib/node_modules/create-react-app
System: OS: macOS 10.15.4 CPU: (16) x64 Intel® Core™ i9-9880H CPU @ 2.30GHz Binaries: Node: 10.20.1 - /var/folders/6v/sfby3s_d0l320yd3hyblj3bc0000gq/T/fnm-shell-7483721/bin/node Yarn: Not Found npm: 6.14.4 - /var/folders/6v/sfby3s_d0l320yd3hyblj3bc0000gq/T/fnm-shell-7483721/bin/npm Browsers: Chrome: 81.0.4044.129 Firefox: Not Found Safari: 13.1 npmPackages: react: ^16.13.1 => 16.13.1 react-dom: ^16.13.1 => 16.13.1 react-scripts: 3.4.1 => 3.4.1 npmGlobalPackages: create-react-app: Not Found
Steps to reproduce
(Write your steps here:)
- npx create-react-app my-app
- cd my-app
- npm start &
- Hit Enter key
It should start the dev server and run it in the (shell) background. It used to work like that.
Actual behavior
It immediately stops the job:
[1]+ Stopped npm start
Reproducible demo
n/a
Issue Analytics
- State:
- Created 3 years ago
- Reactions:5
- Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)
Top GitHub Comments
Same. Central to my dev workflow too, so I tinkered a bit. I have a monorepo where a bash script launches about 6 different processes, backgrounds each, then calls
wait
on each.Workaround
I changed
to
in my bash script and now create-react-app behaves normally again, albeit without colorized output
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