`vue create .` hangs

[bruceauyeung]

Version

vue-cli: 4.0.4

Reproduction link

http://no-link-needed-for-this-issue.github.com

Environment info

$ vue info

Environment Info:

  System:
    OS: Linux 4.19 Manjaro Linux undefined
    CPU: (4) x64 AMD Athlon(tm) X4 870K Quad Core Processor
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.4.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.19.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.9.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.4.0/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: Not Found
    Firefox: Not Found
  npmGlobalPackages:
    @vue/cli: Not Found

[bruce@bruce-manjaro ~]$ which vue
/home/bruce/.yarn/bin/vue
[bruce@bruce-manjaro ~]$ which firefox-beta
/usr/bin/firefox-beta

Steps to reproduce

1. install nvm
2. install nodejs 12.4.0 using nvm: nvm install 12.4.0
3. install yarn using node: node i yarn -g
4. install vue-cli using yarn: yarn global add @vue/cli
5. add /home/bruce/.yarn/bin/ into env variable $PATH
6. use vue command to create a vue+typescript project with features: less, babel, typescript, router, vuex, eslint, unit-jest, e2e-cypress
7. vue command hangs at here, no matter how long i wait for:

[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
info fsevents@1.2.9: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
info "fsevents@1.2.9" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. Excluding it from installation.
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
[-/5] ⠄ waiting...
[-/5] ⠄ waiting...
[-/5] ⠄ waiting...
[-/5] ⠄ waiting...
^C/5] ⠄ cypress

What is expected?

vue create . creates this project successfully.

What is actually happening?

vue create . hangs

[haoqunjiang]

Likely a network issue.
Considering you are in China, please set this environment variable and try again:

export CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/cypress/3.4.1/linux-x64/cypress.zip

[bruceauyeung]

@sodatea i will try this evening.
when this situation happened, i'd like to enable vue-cli's debug mode / verbose mode to figure out what's happening, but vue-cli seems lack of it.

[bruceauyeung]

@sodatea i tried just now in my windows 7 64bit environment.

1. set env variable: set CYPRESS_INSTALL_BINARY=https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/cypress/3.4.1/win32-x64/cypress.zip
2. run vue create helloworld 2 times. at the first time, it hangs as described, but at the second time, vue create helloworld finished its job very soon. I think it's indeed related to network lag.

about the verbose mode i mentioned, should i fire a feature request ?

[LinusBorg]

@bruceauyeung you can certainly open a separate feature request for this.

I'll close this issue here since it seems to be related to the network, not Vue CLI