Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts on ionic serve

Question

I have an Ionic project, which works fine on my windows machine and friend's mac, but I got a problem on linux.

The problem appears on ionic serve, it's infinitely Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts..., and appearing continues while it's running. Development server seems to work fine.

Hope, we'll find a solution.

CLI output:

npm run start

> [project name]@0.0.1 start
> ionic serve

> react-scripts start
[react-scripts] ℹ ｢wds｣: Project is running at http://192.168.1.66/
[react-scripts] ℹ ｢wds｣: webpack output is served from 
[react-scripts] ℹ ｢wds｣: Content not from webpack is served from /[project path]/app/public
[react-scripts] ℹ ｢wds｣: 404s will fallback to /
[react-scripts] Starting the development server...
[react-scripts] 
[react-scripts] You can now view better-call in the browser.
[react-scripts]   Local:            http://localhost:8100
[react-scripts]   On Your Network:  http://192.168.1.66:8100
[react-scripts] Note that the development build is not optimized.
[react-scripts] To create a production build, use npm run build.
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...
[INFO] Waiting for connectivity with react-scripts...

Answer 1

I have same issue, because I used node 18, with 16 it's better. You can resolve it with this:

1. Install npm i n.

2. Install older version of node, 16 works fine for me, then install it with this command -> n 16.

3. Change version of node that you want, just put n in your terminal, and then select the 16 node version, and use ionic serve again

I hope this works for you.

Best