Webpack-dev-server: Crash on node 10.6.0 and up

[Ky6uk]

• Operating System: macOS 10.13.6
• Node Version: 10.6.0, 10.7.0
• NPM Version: 6.1.0
• webpack Version: 4.16.3

• webpack-dev-server Version: 3.1.5

• [x] This is a bug

• [x] This is a modification request

Webpack crashes sometimes in node 10.6.0 and up. Unfortunately I can't localize the problem, but I think this is relating to https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/21665.

[blackshadev]

@evilebottnawi this was one of the issues that moved me to webpack-serve since it completely broke webpack-dev-server with https for me.

[alexander-akait]

Problem still exists?

[Ky6uk]

@evilebottnawi I am not sure, because I am using node v10.5.0 because of the bug. I will try to use the latest node from now. Let's see.

[Ky6uk]

Well, it looks fine for the last day with node v10.9.0. I think we can reopen this issue if something new will happen.

[blackshadev]

Good to hear. I will upgrade my setup next week and report back with the
results.

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018, 16:23 Roman Nuritdinov, [e-mail]
wrote:

Well, it looks fine for the last day with node v10.9.0. I think we can
reopen this issue if something new will happen.

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[blackshadev]

@evilebottnawi Seems to work just fine. Thanks!

[jrop]

I am getting this in an app created with create-react-app under node 10.9.0

It seems to be intermittent

[blackshadev]

@jrop Which version of webpack-dev-server are you running. For me this is absolutely fixed in webpack-dev-server version 3.1.7

[jrop]

@blackshadev

macOS 10.13.6
webpack-dev-server 2.9.4

I created the app using create-react-app --scripts-version react-scripts-ts. As others have noted, rebooting the machine causes the issue to go away for a limited time. But then it comes right back. I have switched to using Node 8.11.4 and the issue has ceased to occur.

[alexander-akait]

@jrop you should update webpack-dev-server

[jrop]

@evilebottnawi I believe the responsible party to upgrading webpack-dev-server is the team maintaining react-scripts-ts, which is why I have resorted to using an older version of Node instead

[WellspringCS]

I may be confused, as I'm using Angular CLI which uses webpack-dev-server, but my version of webpack-dev-server in the root folder node_modules is 3.1.7, and I've specified that in my Angular package.json... and yet STILL I see this crash continuously. I'm going to take my version of node back to 10.5 and see what happens. (Currently it's 10.7)

[WellspringCS]

So... five hours later, and I've not seen the error yet. I still have the occasional "The expression evaluated to a falsy value" crash, but moving back to 10.5... I count it as a huge win.

For me, at least, webpack-dev-server 3.1.7 proved to be a false hope.