wlm start doesn't load watchman

[bantingGamer]

The issue

wml start does nothing. It is as if it doesn't load watchman. There is just a blank cursor flashing. No changes are copied.

To replicate

Install latest watchman "version": "4.9.4" from https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html
install wml npm install -g wml
Configure wml wml add ~/my-package ~/main-project/node_modules/my-package
run wml wml start
and nothing

Thank you for your time

[ABQJuan]

Same problem here.
wml add, rm, list etc all work fine.
wml start just results in a blinking cursor on the next line. No output. No changes.

Windows 10

[ajohnston1219]

Same here

Windows 10

[wushq5]

add your wml/src dir to watchman list will do, like this
watchman watch /Users/rcrabwu/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.0/lib/node_modules/wml/src

[SevenZark]

I am also having this issue on a brand new install of Windows 10. "wml start" just resolves to a blinking cursor. It doesn't actually notice changes or do anything at all except leave a blinking cursor sitting there.

[SevenZark]

add your wml/src dir to watchman list will do, like this
watchman watch /Users/rcrabwu/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.0/lib/node_modules/wml/src

This did not solve anything for me.

[youngjuning]

how to use it on windows？

[youngjuning]

same issues on windows10

[youngjuning]

[youngjuning]

@wushq5 thanks for your help

[hosseinalipour]

it's sucks. which path do I need to watch by the watchman. it doesn't work.

[gcandal]

Under scoop + nvm running watchman watch C:\Users\%user\scoop\apps\nvm\current\nodejs\nodejs\node_modules\wml\src seems to work.

[daominhsangvn]

For people who late that have this issue:
Steps by step how to run WML

• Install wml: $ npm install -g wml
• Install Watchman:
  • Windows: https://github.com/facebook/watchman/releases (Add to PATH and restart terminal)
  • MacOS: $ brew update && brew install watchman
• Delete existing watches: $ watchman watch-del-all
• Activate watchman for wml: $ watchman watch "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\wml\src"
  • (Windows) Find nodejs package location: $ npm list -g --depth 0 | head -1 > You will see something like this C:\Program Files\nodejs
  • (MacOS) Find nodejs location: $ which node
• Add link: $ wml add <package to sync location> <dest package location>
• Watch & Sync: $ wml start

[kopax-polyconseil]

I have tried not to install wml globally, and result was bad.

Chao ban va xin cam on, this should be in the README, the most important part is the step active watchman, as soon as you map this correctly, you will see output when running wml start.

However, it's not because I see wml logging that I see file updating, it still seems that wml is not doing anything but logging.

Any clue how I can solve the linking problem betweenn a module and a native application?

[andresesfm]

In my case, I followed @daominhsangvn 's instructions (MacOS) but since I'm using n I couldn't get the location of node_modules/wml/src by using which node. I found a more accurate way by using:
npm root -g Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54996486

[vinikatyal]

In my case, I followed @daominhsangvn 's instructions (MacOS) but since I'm using n I couldn't get the location of node_modules/wml/src by using which node. I found a more accurate way by using:
npm root -g Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54996486

Thanks for this!

[Mengsha97]

@daominhsangvn Thank you! It works!

[tylers-username]

For those of you having trouble finding the path on macOS or Linux, this should help:

watchman watch $(dirname /$(readlink $(which wml)))/../wml/src

[reactoholic]

add your wml/src dir to watchman list will do, like this watchman watch /Users/rcrabwu/.nvm/versions/node/v8.9.0/lib/node_modules/wml/src

When I did this wml start throws an error :

[error] watchman::RootResolveError: failed to resolve root: unable to resolve root /Users/pkolev/projects/bytesmiths/homeco2ntrol-lib/src: failed to resolve root: directory /Users/pkolev/projects/bytesmiths/homeco2ntrol-lib/src is not watched
/Users/pkolev/.nvm/versions/node/v20.12.2/lib/node_modules/wml/node_modules/q/q.js:155
                throw e;
                ^

Error: watchman::RootResolveError: failed to resolve root: unable to resolve root /Users/pkolev/projects/bytesmiths/homeco2ntrol-lib/src: failed to resolve root: directory /Users/pkolev/projects/bytesmiths/homeco2ntrol-lib/src is not watched
    at BunserBuf.<anonymous> (/Users/pkolev/.nvm/versions/node/v20.12.2/lib/node_modules/wml/node_modules/fb-watchman/index.js:95:23)
    at BunserBuf.emit (node:events:518:28)
    at BunserBuf.process (/Users/pkolev/.nvm/versions/node/v20.12.2/lib/node_modules/wml/node_modules/bser/index.js:289:10)
    at /Users/pkolev/.nvm/versions/node/v20.12.2/lib/node_modules/wml/node_modules/bser/index.js:244:12
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:77:11) {
  watchmanResponse: {
    error: 'watchman::RootResolveError: failed to resolve root: unable to resolve root /Users/pkolev/projects/bytesmiths/homeco2ntrol-lib/src: failed to resolve root: directory /Users/pkolev/projects/bytesmiths/homeco2ntrol-lib/src is not watched',
    version: '2024.07.15.00'
  }
}

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