I have something similar happening to me.
I have a react project that I want to convert to Typescript and I started as you noted with the “create-react-app”, added all my files and hoped for the best – but got stuck like you on the “Starting the development server” message.
I have an 8GB Ram with Windows 10 and once I used the default “npm start” for the first time I’ve seen the node process uses a lot of memory – So I tried to give it more and at the same time I tired to change the port react uses.
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Added this to the start script in package.json:
"scripts": {
"start": "PORT=3001 react-scripts --max_old_space_size=8128 start",
...
} -
Closed all my chrome browsers (they take pretty much memory)
- And gave it around 1 minute to run
After 1 minute it started working and from that point it just starts quickly and not uses as much memory and not depended on the port I choose
In my case – I guess the first time you run “npm start” on the React Typescript project it probably index the files (or does something similar – I’m not sure and probably need to read about it – I’m new to typescript) which take a lot of memory.
In your case – It might be something similar
Hope it helps 🙂