npm run serve is stuck

It is a continually running process but you won't see any output once the server is running. Your terminal output will be similar to this. As you can see, the webpack: Compiled successfully. is the last message. As Freddy said, opening localhost:8080 will show that it is serving the files. To kill the process, press ctrl+c.

➜  photo_blog npm run serve

> photoblog@ serve /Users/neildocherty/Documents/Dev/photo_blog
> webpack-dev-server --config config/develop.config.js --inline --progress --port 8080

 70% 3/3 build modules http://localhost:8080/
webpack result is served from http://localhost:8080
content is served from /Users/neildocherty/Documents/Dev/photo_blog
404s will fallback to /index.html
 70% 4/4 build moduleswebpack: wait until bundle finished: /
 34% 4/10 build modules
[at-loader] Using typescript@2.1.4 from typescript and "tsconfig.json" from /Users/neildocherty/Documents/Dev/photo_blog/src/tsconfig.js
on.

 90% optimize assets
[at-loader] Checking started in a separate process...

[at-loader] Ok, 0.827 sec.
chunk    {0} app.82c6cf455aac96bd6253.js, app.css (app) 175 bytes {2} [rendered]
chunk    {1} polyfills.82c6cf455aac96bd6253.js (polyfills) 481 kB [rendered]
chunk    {2} vendor.82c6cf455aac96bd6253.js (vendor) 2.59 MB {1} [rendered]
Child html-webpack-plugin for "index.html":
    chunk    {0} index.html 284 bytes [rendered]
Child extract-text-webpack-plugin:
    chunk    {0} extract-text-webpack-plugin-output-filename 3.58 kB [rendered]
webpack: Compiled successfully.

Did you type in 'http://localhost:8080' into a web browser? If it's working you'll see the 'Loading...' message.

Hi there,

there is something else you can try in order to see if you have a problem with your computer and its configuration. I suggest you to reinstall globally:

• Node.
• npm.
• typescript (with npm).

The problem you are encountering is maybe because of the path roots of your computer. I had the same issue and now it works just fine on my configuration.

Tell me if it works for you :).

Thomas.

ah never mind--was going to the wrong port 8000 ---instead of 8080

I had the same issue at one point in the course - where everything compiled successfully but the local host page just said loading.....

I solved my problem by removing comment code I accidentally put inside of a tag element (on the last video for form validation he has us create a 3 line div.)

Just thought I would put that out there in case someone makes the same mistake!