ng command hangs for Node v7.0.0

[jtsom]

Please provide us with the following information:

OS?

Windows 7, 8 or 10. Linux (which distribution). Mac OSX (Yosemite? El Capitan?)

OS X Sierra 10.12.1
Homebrew 1.0.8-133-g84d1661

Versions.

Please run ng --version. If there's nothing outputted, please run in a Terminal: node --version and paste the result here:

v1.0.0-beta.18 installed. Cannot run command, ng command hangs

Repro steps.

Was this an app that wasn't created using the CLI? What change did you do on your code? etc.

Type ng command. Nothing happens. Status bar in Terminal window shows: ng --version(node)

Have to Control-C to exit

The log given by the failure.

None.

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[jtsom]

Ok, digging around, looks like it's a problem with watchman. I uninstalled that - after going back to Node 6.9.1 and ng still wasn't working, saw that watchman was trying to run. Uninstalling watchman seems to have worked.

[mixomat]

@jtsom thx, had the same issue 👍

[jtsom]

Strange thing is, on another system, having Watchman installed is not causing any problems.

I can run Node 7 just fine with angular-cli without watchman on this system. Add watchman, and it hangs. (For what it's worth, the Ember cli command does the same - not surprising as they're similar)

[jtsom]

More testing. I tried installing watchman again, and ng was still hanging.

This time I uninstalled watchman (brew uninstall watchman) and also removed the launchctl item (launchctl remove com.github.facebook.watchman) to make sure it was gone.

ng worked fine. So I reinstalled watchman and started up an angular 2 app - and it seems to be ok now. The launchctl item reinstalled itself - I can only assume something got corrupted?

YMMV

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