Please explain what the 'start-client.js' script is doing? about food-lookup-demo HOT 2 CLOSED

Hey @I-keep-trying

Great to hear this worked for you! What were the tweaks that you had to make to get it up and running? Would be great to incorporate so that this works out-of-the-box on a variety of machines.

The start-client.js is a little complex just so that this works on multiple platforms (Mac/Linux/Windows). If we were only running on a mac, this is all that we would need:

$ cd client && npm start

Because that command doesn't work the same on Windows, we need to take another route. So we use child_process#spawn to give us a multi-platform command for executing the start command in a child directory. The opts in start-script are mostly working with the child_process#spawn API. We "change the working directory" (cwd) to client and then run start in there.

If you're on Windows, it's possible the other demos you encountered were built with Mac/Linux-only strategies.

Hope this helps. Feel free to re-open / comment if you have more questions

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Hi,

I honestly could not remember, at first, what the issue was, and then I remembered that I replied to another person who had the exact same issue I had in the early stages of setup here and I described to him exactly what my problem was, and how I solved it.

I am on Windows, but most of the time, the Mac/Linux instructions don't get in the way. Anything they can do, I can do with my setup. If there is a problem, it's usually just a npm package I need or something easy to fix - in fact, I don't worry unless I see a whole separate "For Windows..." section, lol!

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