"convex dev --until-success" dev:init exited with 1
Hello,
I am travelling and on a new laptop and forgot to get my project loaded up and working before I left.
I have cloned my project, filled in my env.local, run npm install and installed convex globally.
When I run the dev command:
When I run the dev command:
npm-run-all dev:init --parallel dev:server dev:client I will spin on preparing convex functions for only a moment before I receive ERROR: "dev:init" exited with 1.
What might I be missing? is there a verbose option for this init?
I also tried running the existing project command, but it just seemed to place the values I already had in my env.local.11 Replies
What's the definition for those dev scripts?
we don't know what your
dev:init npm script is runningconvex dev --until-success This is using one of convex templates, I didnt write dev:init either šis this from a template?
I believe this was the base i started with: https://github.com/get-convex/convex-nextjs-app-router-demo
GitHub
GitHub - get-convex/convex-nextjs-app-router-demo: Demo showing a N...
Demo showing a Next.js App Router app powered by Convex backend - get-convex/convex-nextjs-app-router-demo
I used to do the
dev:init but I've switched to naming it predev which will automatically run before dev
either way, the purpose of it is to make sure your code syncs once before running both commands. This gives you an interactive terminal when first setting up your project
If you are happy with manually running npx convex dev the first time, then you can get rid of it
The --until-success flag will run it once until it succeeds - e.g. if it complains about a schema mismatch or missing environment variable, it'll wait to retry until you've fixed it
What does npx convex dev --until-success do for you?same resullts. I had the interactive menu the first time:
? Open the browser? Yes
ā Saved credentials to C:\Users\scott\.convex\config.json
? What would you like to configure? an existing project
? Configure project ChainLink (chainlink-82240)? Yes 
And btw I wouldn't install convex globally - I'd let npm use the version that's in your project, so you don't use a different version accidentally. You can use
npx convex to use the version in bin.
Can you try adding -v to get more verbose output?You're on a new laptop, and you're on windows. Did you use WSL on your previous laptop?
No, on my desktop its windows with mingw64 as well, I could get wsl up and running, to try, but I have port issues with it on my desktop so I dont use it often. verbose does same, spins and closes.
Hey @Monk , where you able to resolve this?