Troubleshooting

Every now and again, you're going to run into issues with things. The following is a list of issues that we've run across.

Composer or Node issues

Every now and again, Composer or Node likes to throw us a curveball and not behave for some reason. This can be from anything like simply not working right or leaving files behind. Sometimes, the fix is to simply remove the files and restart.

Composer files are stored in the /vendor directory and Node files are stored in the /node_modules directory. Simply deleting those and reinstalling should work.

Composer

Linux:

rm -rf vendor/

composer install

Windows command:

rmdir /S vendor

composer install

Node

Linux:

rm -rf node_modules/

composer install

Windows command:

rmdir /S node_modules

composer install

Browsersync issues on Linux

If you're running into issues with Browsersync on Linux, try increasing your inotify watches with the following command:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

Reference:

• https://github.com/BrowserSync/browser-sync/issues/1408#issuecomment-356539476
• https://github.com/BrowserSync/browser-sync/issues/224#issuecomment-98299425