Cannot build vue app for production -- webpack gets into endless loop

[qodfathr]

• Your Windows build number: 10.0.17692.1004

• What you're doing and what's happening: Trying to build a node Vue app for production.

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead: It should build the app. Instead, build runs forever.

From a clean install of Ubuntu/WSL,

Install nvm, node v8, and @vue/cli

node -v : 8.11.3 (problem also happens with v9 and v10, btw)
npm -v: 5.6.0
vue -V : 3.0.0-rc.3

use vue create to create a sample app with defaults.

npm run build to build the project for production

Observe that the build never finished, and a node process is consuming 100% of a core.

What appears to be happening is, within the running of webpack as part of the compile, a call from native back to node for managing async callbacks/promises isn't doing anything. In particular, in async_hooks.js, the function emitHookFactory will be called over and over again with the same asyncId, but for that particular asyncId it does not do anything -- seemingly leaving it on the list of callbacks yet to be resolved. Rinse and repeat.

This behavior is not observed on CentOS (in a Hyper-V VM) with the exact same project and same versions of node/npm/vue.

[ghost]

Where do you installed node from ? apt sources ubuntu or apt from sources node packages

[qodfathr]

I installed nvm via

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.1/install.sh | bash

and then node via nvm with

nvm install node v8

I'm not sure where nvm gets node from, though.

[therealkenc]

Your Windows build number: 10.0.17692.1004

#3191. Try 17677

[ghost]

Try installed node from here, then reinstall vue https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/

[qodfathr]

I agree this was likely just a dupe of #3191. I upgraded to 10.0.17711.1000 and the problem immediately went away without any additional remediation.

Closing as dupe.