Hi all!
I am using the project at https://evernote-random.glitch.me and recently the site is indicating that it takes an unusual long time to start up (see screenshot).
The project is abandoned by its developer so I can’t ask him for support. Can one of you tell me how to fix this? The code is available at
TIA, Sebastian
the server listens on port 8000, but glitch only exposes port 3000. However, the npm start script runs both nodemon server and react-run-scripts start in parallel; react-run-scripts start listens on port 3000 by default, and you can’t really have 2 applications listening on the same port. I’m not sure if it’s possible to get this working on modern-day glitch without significant changes, but it may be worth remixing the project and using the project console to see where it’s going wrong - since it seems to me that at least the react client should be running properly, even if the server isn’t.
oh but glitch secretly allows a few other ports to work
PORTS_REGEX='1234\|3000\|4000\|4200\|4567\|5000\|8000\|8080\|8081\|8888\|9000'
have i been lied to all these years?!
Looks like it’s running just fine? Just remember that if it’s a free project, it’s going to go to sleep after a few minutes of inactivity, and if your project takes a while to wake up because your code doesn’t immediately stand up a server, you’ll see that message on “proper, full wake-up”.
Thanks for the feedback. I realize that it’s a free project and that it sleeps after a while. The warning message just led me to believe that there’s something wrong with the startup code (which can be optimized?).
It’s a hint for you to double-check to make sure you didn’t mess up your server (because a whole bunch of people have written in to support asking about their project not starting when they literally just forgot to add an app.listen or equivalent that actually… you know… starts a server)
Okay. That explains it. Thanks again!