[Bug]: shopify theme dev command not running

[lockystav]

Please confirm that you have:

• Searched existing issues to see if your issue is a duplicate. (If you’ve found a duplicate issue, feel free to add additional information in a comment on it.)
• Reproduced the issue in the latest CLI version.

In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem?

Theme

Expected behavior

When i ran shopify theme dev i expected it to run the development theme onto a local host and a live preview. When i first setup the cli and theme packages through npm, it ran perfectly, then i tried to run it again at a later time and the issue occured and wasnt spinning up the local environment anymore

Actual behavior

It shows an error in the cli and I have no clue why it is happening. I have tried reinstalling the cli and theme npm packages multiple times, reintalled node.js and also ruby but the error is still showing.

Stack trace

╭─ error ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                             │
│  command theme:serve:. not found                                                            │
│                                                                                             │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

C:\Users\locky\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\@shopify\cli\node_modules\yoga-layout-prebuilt\yoga-layout\build\Release\nbind.js:53
        throw ex;
        ^

AbortSilentError
    at execCLI2 (file:///C:/Users/locky/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/@shopify/theme/node_modules/@shopify/cli-kit/dist/public/node/ruby.js:53:15)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5) {
  tryMessage: null,
  type: 1,
  nextSteps: undefined
}

Reproduction steps

1. Install Node.js
2. Install Ruby
3. Install @shopify/cli and @shopify/theme
4. Run shopify theme dev

Operating System

Windowws 11

Shopify CLI version (check your project's package.json if you're not sure)

3.43.0

Shell

Command Prompt

Node version (run node -v if you're not sure)

v18.14.0

What language and version are you using in your application?

Its a theme, so liquid and js

[mailmonir]

I've the exact same problem and unable to fix it. I uninstalled and reinstalled everything but didn't fix the problem.

[k1m0na]

bump

[crupko93]

I got same problem runing yarn start. My package.json is bellow.
{ "name": "shopify-theme-lab", "description": "Customizable modular development environment for blazing-fast Shopify theme creation", "author": "Sergej Samsonenko", "version": "4.4.1", "license": "MIT", "scripts": { "start": "run-p -sr shopify:serve webpack:watch", "deploy": "run-s webpack:build && cd shopify && shopify theme push", "deploy:new": "run-s webpack:build && cd shopify && shopify theme push --unpublished", "webpack:watch": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development BROWSERSLIST_ENV=development BROWSERSLIST_CONFIG=.config/.browserslistrc webpack --config .config/webpack/webpack.dev.js --watch --progress", "webpack:build": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production BROWSERSLIST_ENV=production BROWSERSLIST_CONFIG=.config/.browserslistrc webpack --config .config/webpack/webpack.prod.js --progress", "shopify:serve": "cd shopify && shopify theme dev", "shopify:pull": "cd shopify && shopify theme pull", "lint": "run-s -c lint:*", "lint:js": "eslint src/**/*.{js,vue} --config .config/.eslintrc.js", "lint:css": "stylelint src/**/*.{vue,css,sass,scss} --config .config/.stylelintrc.js", "lint:shopify": "cd shopify && shopify theme check", "fix": "run-s -c fix:*", "fix:js": "eslint src/**/*.{js,vue} --config .config/.eslintrc.js --fix", "fix:css": "stylelint src/**/*.{vue,css,sass,scss} --config .config/.stylelintrc.js --fix", "fix:shopify": "cd shopify && shopify theme check -a" }, "dependencies": { "@shopify/cli": "^3.43.0", "vue": "^3.2.26", "vuex": "^4.0.2" }, "devDependencies": { "@babel/core": "^7.16.0", "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime": "^7.16.4", "@babel/preset-env": "^7.16.4", "@vue/compiler-sfc": "^3.2.26", "autoprefixer": "^10.4.0", "babel-loader": "^8.2.3", "clean-webpack-plugin": "^4.0.0", "cross-env": "^7.0.3", "css-loader": "^6.5.1", "css-minimizer-webpack-plugin": "^3.2.0", "eslint": "^8.4.1", "eslint-plugin-vue": "^8.2.0", "eslint-webpack-plugin": "^3.1.1", "mini-css-extract-plugin": "^2.4.5", "npm-run-all": "^4.1.5", "postcss": "^8.4.5", "postcss-html": "^1.3.0", "postcss-import": "^14.0.2", "postcss-loader": "^6.2.1", "sass": "^1.55.0", "sass-loader": "^13.1.0", "stylelint": "^14.1.0", "stylelint-config-recommended": "^6.0.0", "stylelint-webpack-plugin": "^3.1.0", "url-loader": "^4.1.1", "vue-loader": "^16.8.3", "webpack": "^5.65.0", "webpack-cli": "^4.9.1", "webpack-merge": "^5.8.0" } }

Interesting fact that replacing:
"shopify:serve": "cd shopify && shopify theme dev", -> "shopify:serve": "cd shopify && shopify help",
will work and display

[tomhooker]

Got same issue

[mailmonir]

I got a solution for this problem. I uninstalled everything (nodejs, shopify-cli, shopify-theme, ruby), even deleted all the files and folders from appdata->roaming related to these programs. Also deleted npm-cache folder. After that reinstalled everything and now its working fine as before.

[crupko93]

I got a solution for this problem. I uninstalled everything (nodejs, shopify-cli, shopify-theme, ruby), even deleted all the files and folders from appdata->roaming related to these programs. Also deleted npm-cache folder. After that reinstalled everything and now its working fine as before.

What OS are you using?

[mailmonir]

I got a solution for this problem. I uninstalled everything (nodejs, shopify-cli, shopify-theme, ruby), even deleted all the files and folders from appdata->roaming related to these programs. Also deleted npm-cache folder. After that reinstalled everything and now its working fine as before.

What OS are you using?

I'm using windows 11 64-bit

[crupko93]

This answer helped me to solve my issue -> uicrooks/shopify-theme-lab#176 (comment)

[lockystav]

Just to update everyone,

There was a new update for the shopify CLI and when i installed the update it seemed to be all good again. Seemed like the cli just needed to be refresehd from an update or something. Not too sure

[chunkysteveo]

Adding the --path and the path to the theme directory helped me get the DEV command to actually fire up and not stall. Hope this gets fixed in an update.

[kamalubd]

Same problem here. stuck after showing "Logged in" message. How to solve the problem?