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Nicholas Indri
2,935 PointsThis is a technical issue with the Treehouse website. I cannot follow along with the npm workspace as I repeatedly get
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10 Answers
Myers Carpenter
6,421 PointsMadeleine Wallner Hey. I took a look at what's happening. The bcrypt npm package has quite a lot of files (605), so many it's making the Treehouse workspace file daemon timeout while listing them all.
But no fear there is a way around it. In the teacher notes it says if you have problems with the bcrypt package, try the bcryptjs package, which only has 29 files and works just like the other package. You will need to import the bcryptjs package in place of bcrypt in your code.
Matt Coale
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 17,884 PointsThis did the trick for me--thanks!
Nicholas Indri
2,935 PointsHi, Matt,
This was my latest contact from support on Apr 20: "Thanks for those details. We do apologize, we have created a report, but have not yet found a solution. We have gone ahead and applied a free week to your account for the time lost with this. Please know this is being looked into. We really appreciate your patience with this!"
So, we're on our own, I surmise. It was suggested to me to attempt to download the workspace but I got a permission error. I've had such disconnections repeatedly with other workspaces. I have been able to download some as I've been able to download project files. But some project files have several redundant copies of dependent folders so it can take a VERY long time and you end up with the redundant files in your local storage.
The whole point of Treehouse's personal workspace library is to keep a snapshot of each workspace you've used for future reference. Keeping track of that in your local storage is not as convenient, as is installing every npm package you may only use briefly.
Good luck, Nick
Myers Carpenter
6,421 PointsNickolas,
I'm one of the Treehouse developers. Sorry you've had problems with downloading workspaces. I'm having trouble figuring out what is happening when you are getting "permission error". Could you explain what is happening more?
Matt Roberts
5,173 PointsI get the same issue also. I am using a mac 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5 de doble núcleo MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015)
Justin White
8,765 Pointsim getting the same issue, had a couple times where it gave me a 403 error too
Myers Carpenter
6,421 PointsJustin White We had some site problems over the weekend. Perhaps you were affected by those? Are you still having problems?
Justin White
8,765 PointsMyers Carpenter I think it was just the site problem that happened over the weekend. So far everything has been working great!
Desiree Dixon
8,203 PointsI'm still getting that same error. The workspace keeps disconnecting and I can't download it. "403 Permissions".
Myers Carpenter
6,421 PointsDesiree Dixon could you contact our support with your workspace id that you are having problems with?
stalaktite
5,060 PointsHello,
I have a similar problem : npm downloads the packages (with warnings) but then I can't explore the created npm directory. Instead I get "Workspace connection lost" every time I try to, open it.
I get this with Chrome as well as Firefox, on my Windows 10 PC. Never encountered this problem before so I'd say this is linked to npm downloads.
Myers Carpenter
6,421 Pointsstalaktite could you contact our support with your workspace id that you are having problems with?
Madeleine Wallner
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 16,546 PointsI have the exact same problem. I contacted support and gave them my workspace id. They told me to create a post here on the forum, but I don't know if that's necessary when this one already exists?
Johnny Austen
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 35,494 PointsSame issue for me I'm afraid.
Myers Carpenter
6,421 PointsJohnny Austen See my note above ^
Johnny Austen
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 35,494 PointsI've just run it locally instead, seems this might be a global issue for this workspace.
Myers Carpenter
6,421 PointsJohnny Austen It has to do with the bcrypt package in question having more files than workspaces can handle. If you use the bcryptjs it will work in workspaces.
Marta Lewandowska
4,988 PointsI was having this problem too - every time I wanted to uninstall the bcrypt the connection was lost! I ended up deleting manually the node_modules package by right-clicking and delete. It was the only thing that helped in my case (after 30 mins of frustration!) Than as said before I installed bcryptjs and everything work smoothly. Good luck
Nicholas Indri
2,935 PointsNicholas Indri
2,935 Points...as I repeatedly get the message: "Workspace connection lost".