New contributor localhost:3000 not working

[zeedawg]

Hello,

I am on a Mac and have installed the repo locally. I am having trouble with ‘npm run develop’

I am able to see the homepage at localhost:8000, but I cannot go to localhost:3000 to sign in or to the localhost:3000/explore page.

Any help would be appreciated.

[zeedawg]

In the steps, it mentions losing the app at local host:8000 and clicking the sign in button.

This sign in button leads to localhost:3000 which ends with an error.
I hope that helps.

[hbar1st]

@zeedawg

localhost:3000/explore

Should it be
localhost:3000/explorer ?

[zeedawg]

Yes, I tried both; I wasn’t able to sign in at all.

When I try to sign in it just goes to an error that could not connect to localhost:3000

[zeedawg]

I attached an image of the error I see. Like before, I can connect to port 8000, but clicking the sign in button breaks due to a connection error on port 3000.

[hbar1st]

The fCC guide says to check if port 3000 is in use

netstat -a | grep "3000"

tcp4    0   0    0.0.0.0:3000           DESKTOP      LISTEN

[zeedawg]

% netstat -a | grep “3000”

tcp4 0 0 0.0.0.0:3000 DESKTOP LISTEN

zsh: command not found: tcp4

That was the result of that. I did have an error with mongod and it wouldn’t work, but running it as a MacOS service worked ‘brew services start mongoldb-community’, but I’m not sure if that is the same or behaves the same.

[hbar1st]

@zeedawg

DESKTOP LISTEN

I wonder what this program is. Can you guess?

[zeedawg]

That is from this command
netstat -a | grep “3000”

tcp4 0 0 0.0.0.0:3000 DESKTOP LISTEN

from the fcc guide.

I am going to manually install mongodb, as it has an error and may be trying to install as an intel based form instead of arm for Mac m1.

[hbar1st]

Oh right (didn’t notice the output was so long).

Have you double checked your node.js and non installs too?

node -v
npm -v