Multiple terminal popups on Windows

[cskiwi]

Current Behavior

Whenever I make a change in my project after updating to 19.1.0 a couple of terminals popup for a millisecond and then closing again.
Making the whole experience very disturbing because it takes the focus. Making it very hard to work

Expected Behavior

No popups or at least not ones that take the active focus

Steps to Reproduce

Have a project using nx 19.1.0 on windows

Failure Logs / Images / Videos

This is the same as: #1751

Environment

• Nx Console version: 19.1.0
• VSCode version: 1.89.1

nx report:

Node   : 20.12.2
OS     : win32-x64
bun    : 1.1.10

nx                 : 19.1.0
@nx/js             : 19.1.0
@nx/jest           : 19.1.0
@nx/linter         : 19.1.0
@nx/eslint         : 19.1.0
@nx/workspace      : 19.1.0
@nx/angular        : 19.0.2
@nx/devkit         : 19.1.0
@nx/eslint-plugin  : 19.1.0
@nx/nest           : 19.1.0
@nx/node           : 19.1.0
@nx/playwright     : 19.1.0
@nrwl/tao          : 19.1.0
@nx/web            : 19.1.0
@nx/webpack        : 19.1.0
typescript         : 5.4.5
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Registered Plugins:
@nx/eslint/plugin
@nx/jest/plugin
@nx/playwright/plugin
@nx/webpack/plugin
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Community plugins:
@auth0/auth0-angular : 2.2.3
apollo-angular       : 7.0.1
ng-apexcharts        : 1.10.0
ng-process-env       : 16.0.6
ngxtension           : 3.3.0
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The following packages should match the installed version of nx
  - @nx/angular@19.0.2
  - @nrwl/angular@19.0.2

I know that angular is still on a prev version of nx because one package hasn't updated to the new angular material formatting giving an error.
but I wouldn't think this would cause that issue

[MaxKless]

Hey @cskiwi thanks for the report!
We're aware of this issue and are working on a fix :) It has to do with a misconfiguration in how Nx runs things. The default set by Node.js when running any commands on windows is to show a popup like this. So sometimes we miss instances and forget to disable this "feature".
I'll let you know once we land something to fix it.

[Den-dp]

@MaxKless if I understand the problem correctly, it can be solved once and for all by implementing workspace-wide ESLint rule for Nx Monorepo that fails if exec, spawn, fork etc are used without hideWindows parameter

[CodeWithBryan]

Everytime I come back to NX, this continues to be an issue. As someone that used to be a supporter of NX, it's very frustrating to be unable to use it outright. Given the severity of this issue, I would've expected an urgent fix, yet here we are months later still dealing with this on windows.

Yet another project I've had to pass NX usage on because of this exact cmd prompt popping issue.

[MaxKless]

Hey @CodeWithBryan I'm really sorry to hear about this. I tried reproducing on my windows machine and didn't see any popups on neither 19.1 nor latest. Could you paste your nx report and let me know what steps you're taking to see the popups? Like, what commands are you running, are you using them from just the nx cli or Nx Console?

@cskiwi are you still running into this too on the latest versions?

[nicolasebner]

I have the same issue, my colleague working on the same project as well.
This is really annoying.

I get cmd consoles popping up from: nx\src\daemon\server\start.js

Here my nx report:

Node : 20.14.0
OS : win32-x64
bun : 1.1.6

nx : 19.2.3
@nx/js : 19.2.3
@nx/jest : 19.2.3
@nx/linter : 19.2.3
@nx/eslint : 19.2.3
@nx/workspace : 19.2.3
@nx/cypress : 19.2.3
@nx/devkit : 19.2.3
@nx/eslint-plugin : 19.2.3
@nx/nest : 19.2.3
@nx/node : 19.2.3
@nx/react : 19.2.3
@nrwl/tao : 19.2.3
@nx/web : 19.2.3
@nx/webpack : 19.2.3
typescript : 5.4.5

Registered Plugins:
@nx/webpack/plugin
@nx/eslint/plugin
@nx/jest/plugin

[MaxKless]

Hey thanks everyone for the reports! @cskiwi @nicolasebner
Thanks to the nx report results I could track it down to the bun usage and have a fix in this PR nrwl/nx#26718

@Den-dp you're right it might be time to find a solution to prevent this behaviour altogether. I'll talk about it with the team.

[MaxKless]

Should be released later this week :)

[Den-dp]

@MaxKless if I understand the problem correctly, it can be solved once and for all by implementing workspace-wide ESLint rule for Nx Monorepo that fails if exec, spawn, fork etc are used without hideWindows parameter

@MaxKless speaking of the workspace-wide ESLint rule... Not sure whether it is still relevant to you, but while trying to fix a similar issue in nx-dotnet/nx-dotnet#887, I came up with the following rule nx-dotnet/nx-dotnet@253663f#diff-8f4b5073d52c957e7a4de5f5972eff8864a33308a60905f02cc5f80964e9fde8

[mklueh]

Still happening with 19.7.3...

no matter if I run serve, nx g app or just use IntelliJ with the Nx Plugin installed, I constantly see these windows popping up.

I had to disable the IntelliJ plugin because those windows stayed open and were frozen all the time