[Bug]: shopify theme dev stops after an hour and a half

[diegovogel]

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• Reproduced the issue in the latest CLI version.

In which of these areas are you experiencing a problem?

Theme

Expected behavior

When I run shopify theme dev I expect it to run as long as my computer is awake.

Actual behavior

When I run shopify theme dev it will only run for about an hour and a half before stopping. And when I restart it I always have to log back in. I'm assuming the theme dev command stops because I'm getting automatically logged out. I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature but it's annoying.

Stack trace

No response

Reproduction steps

1. Run shopify theme dev.
2. Wait about an hour and a half for it to stop.

Operating System

macOS Ventura

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

3.23.0

Shell

zsh

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

v15.14.0

What language and version are you using in your application?

No response

[isaacroldan]

Hi @diegovogel, thanks for reporting this. It is a known bug and we are working on fixing it

[diegovogel]

Great, thanks @isaacroldan

[habibly]

@diegovogel I also faced similar issues, what worked for me is changing cli version, there is a slight difference of cli commands between version 2 and 3 so you'll have to keep that in check.

• For theme development use shopify cli 2.x as recommended here
• If you need help you can check these instructions on Shopify Cli 2.x here

[diegovogel]

Thanks @habibly. We recently upgraded from 2.x to 3.x because the docs seem to encourage that. But I see what you're saying about the repo suggesting otherwise. @isaacroldan can you clarify what should be used for theme dev?

There are other benefits of 3.x that we're enjoying, so we may stick with it anyway.

[isaacroldan]

Yes, CLI 3.x is the recommended tool for themes. We are actively working on solving this and other theme issues, i'll update this issue when we have a fix.

That message from the CLI 2.x repo is outdated, i'll make sure we update that doc soon.

[notrealdev]

same here, stops after an hour and a half
need more time pls.

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[notrealdev]

There a timeset called ThemeRefreshTimeoutInMinutes in the Shopify auth using the CLI to authenticate to a store, its 90 minutes, this really need to change as soon as possible or add the --password flag to use the token generated by the theme Access App.

Check here: https://github.com/Shopify/cli/blob/main/packages/theme/src/cli/commands/theme/dev.ts

[diegovogel]

Just updated to v3.28.0 and it's fixed! After 2 hrs I'm still logged in. Thank you @isaacroldan!