react-scripts trying to access .steampath

Describe the bug

If some module resolution fails, react-scripts try to stat all files in user’s home directory. if there are some broken link no home folder, development server crashes.

Did you try recovering your dependencies?

Yes.

Which terms did you search for in User Guide?

.steampath

Related, and explained comment: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/9156#issuecomment-645512859

Environment

Environment Info:

  current version of create-react-app: 3.4.1
  running from /home/rolivegab/.npm/_npx/171872/lib/node_modules/create-react-app

  System:
    OS: Linux 5.8 Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition) 32 (Workstation Edition)
    CPU: (12) x64 AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
  Binaries:
    Node: 14.7.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.7.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.5 - /usr/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.14.8 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v14.7.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 86.0.4240.75
    Firefox: 81.0.1
  npmPackages:
    react: ^16.14.0 => 16.14.0 
    react-dom: ^16.14.0 => 16.14.0 
    react-scripts: 3.4.3 => 3.4.3 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    create-react-app: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

1. Since it depends on machine’s having a broken link on home directory, you need to create a broken file there. My .steampath file is just a broken link:

2. npm start

3. force a module resolution failed, or something output:

Expected behavior

react-scripts should not stop development server because a broken link in home directory.

[alexhochreiter]

Today i looked closer at why my react-scripts server is randomly crashing during development (only happens after multiple hours or days) and came across the same issue as op:

Compiling...
/home/alex/work/bla/blabla/myproject/node_modules/react-scripts/scripts/start.js:19
  throw err;
  ^

[Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat '/home/alex/.steampath'] {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'stat',
  path: '/home/alex/.steampath'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! myproject@0.1.0 dev: `npx rimraf node_modules && npm i && react-scripts start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the myproject@0.1.0 dev script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/alex/.npm/_logs/2021-01-23T08_43_37_732Z-debug.log

It’s easy to fix with a simple restart, but what i don’t understand is: WHY THE HECK IS IT TRYING TO ACCESS MY STEAM STUFF OR STAT-ING MY PRIVATE HOME DIR AT ALL? Does Facebook really need to know what’s in my steam lib or how many hours i’ve killed in Hatoful Boyfriend?

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