I just fresh installed latest Meteor using choco install meteor and when I go to run meteor within a meteor app or try to create a fresh app with “meteor.bat create testApp” the command just hangs and outputs nothing even with --verbose and --debug. Only meteor --version seems to have any output.
99% of Windows issues with Meteor are caused by anti-virus slowing down file operations, as there are A LOT of files involved in node apps.
I always add exclusions to Windows Defender for
node.exe
7z.exe
choco.exe
meteor.bat
mongod.exe
and the meteor folder at C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\.meteor\
This speeds up installs, updates, and builds by about 500%
What prompt are you using? Git bash never seems to work right for meteor so I recommend Cmder, powershell or just cmd.exe
I am using git bash and have not made those exclusions, it seems to be working now thank you!
This seems like VERY IMPORTANT information for Windows users. Wouldn’t it be worth mentionning in the getting started documentation? Finally, I’m able to develop on Windows instead of a Linux Virtual Machine! Thanks!