FATAL ERROR Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory in ionic 3

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When I run ionic 3 project using  ionic serve  command than getting this error

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For a non-angular general answer for those who land on this question from Google:

Every time you face this error its probably because of a memory leak or difference between how Node <= 10 and Node > 10 manage memory. Usually just increasing the memory allocated to Node will allow your program to run but may not actually solve the real problem and the memory used by the node process could still exceed the new memory you allocate. I'd advise profiling memory usage in your node process when it starts running or updating to node > 10.

I had a memory leak. Here is a great article on debugging memory leaks in node.

That said, to increase the memory, in the terminal where you run your Node process:

export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=8192"

where values of max-old-space-size can be: [2048, 4096, 8192, 16384] etc

[UPDATE] More examples for further clarity:

export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=5120" #increase to 5gb
export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=6144" #increase to 6gb
export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=7168" #increase to 7gb
export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=8192" #increase to 8gb

# and so on...

# formula:
export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=(X * 1024)" #increase to Xgb

# Note: it doesn't have to be multiples of 1024. 
# max-old-space-size can be any number of memory megabytes(MB) you have available.

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same issue on centos server 7  but this solved my problem   node --max-old-space-size X node modules  angular cli bin ng build --prod   Where X    2048 or 4096 or 8192 o    is the value of memory

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Replace the line    start    ng serve -o --port 4300 --configuration en  with   start     node  --max old space size 5096  node modules  angular cli bin ng  serve  -o  --port  4300  --configuration en   NOTE    port--4300 is not constant depends upon which port you selects   --max old space size 5096 too not constant  any value 1024 2048 4096 etc

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Try this solution which was pointed out in an old message on the forum  https   forum ionicframework com t 3-7-0-ios-build-with-prod-not-working 107061 24  Open node modules  ionic app-scripts bin ionic-app-scripts js  Change the first line from      usr bin env node   to     usr bin env node --max-old-space-size 4096   Try values 1024 and 2048  but for a relatively large app you may need 4096

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Just type this in the terminal  export NODE OPTIONS  quot --max-old-space-size 8192 quot

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If this happening on running React application on VSCode  please check your propTypes  undefined Proptypes leads to the same issue

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Pls check your node version    x000D   x000D        node -v x000D   x000D   x000D   If its 10 1 1 something   then you need to update your root level node version via below commands  x000D   x000D    curl -o- https   raw githubusercontent com nvm-sh nvm v0 35 3 install sh   bash     source    nvm nvm sh    nvm ls    nvm install 12 18 1 x000D   x000D   x000D   Once done pls restart your terminal or visual studio  It s work 100  For ionic user pls add the below code in your package json   x000D   x000D    ionic build    node --max-old-space-size 16384   node modules  ionic app-scripts bin ionic-app-scripts js build        x000D   x000D   x000D

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For me  I had a syntax error  which didn t show up  and caused this error

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In my case it was a recursion that was causing react to use up all memory   This happened when I was refactoring my code and didn t notice this   const SumComponent        gt      return        lt  gt         lt SumComponent   gt       lt   gt           In other node apps this might look like    const someFunction        gt            someFunction

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node --max old space size 4096   node modules  angular cli bin ng build --prod --build-optimizer adding parameter --build-optimizer  resolved the issue in my case  Update  I am not sure why adding only --build-optimizer solves the issue but as per angular docs it should be used with aot enabled  so updated command should be like below --build-optimizer true --aot true  Angular build docs

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node --max old space size 4096 node modules  angular cli bin ng build --baseHref  baseUrl  --prod true

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For me  I encounted this problem when run eslint and prettier fix and formating with a build directory in my React project  after removing it all things worked  I guess this is because there are too many files

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Run this command in your project folder  Use serve instead of build  node --max old space size 8000 node modules  angular cli bin ng serve  --prod --port 4202

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This issue was gone  after I ve updated my all libraries like nodejs  typescript  yarn  npm  etc for my project

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For some reasons all the answer above didn t really work for me  I did the following to fix my issue    I had to first delete the node modules folder  re-install node js on my PC and  then npm install

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Check your folder name  If your folder name having spaces  these kind of issues will generate  Rename without spaces  hope it will work

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For me it was a problem with firebase package   Only add   firebase database    0 2 1   for your package json  reinstall node modules and works

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Sometimes simplicity is the key to success  Search for while  i  lt   10000     without increasing i in your code

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For me I got this error because I lost access to the output path for the dist folder set in my angular json file  After I reconnected to the remote path with updated credentials the error went away

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For me  the issue was having an extra node modules folder that I renamed to node modules old and running an npm install to generate a fresh node modules  Somehow the build must have still been picking up the node modules old folder  so I moved node modules old out of the directory to fix the issue

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I have deleted the existing node module and run the below commands to fix my issue  npm install -all npm audit fix

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usr bin env node --max-old-space-size 4096 in the ionic-app-scripts js dint work Modifying node modules  bin ionic-app-scripts cmd By adding   IF EXIST  quot   dp0 node exe quot     quot   dp0 node exe quot    quot   dp0   ionic app-scripts bin ionic-app-scripts js quot       ELSE    SETLOCAL  SET PATHEXT  PATHEXT   JS     node --max old space size 4096   quot   dp0   ionic app-scripts bin ionic-app-scripts js quot       Worked fianlly

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I got the same error when I execute ng build command in Visual Studio code  But I can build successfully when I execute same thing in Windows command line in following sequence   Step 1   set NODE OPTIONS --max old space size 4096   Step 2   ng build

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I got the same error message when I execute following statements in Visual Studio code  But I can build successfully when I execute same thing in windows command line    npm install -g increase-memory-limit increase-memory-limit set NODE OPTIONS --max old space size 4096 ng build -c deploy --build-optimizer --aot --prod --sourceMap

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Updating from Node 12 to Node 14 solved the problem for me

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I guess there are plenty of ways to reach this error  On my side  I had a loop in my package json  Project A had a dependency on project B  that had a dependency on project A

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In my case  fix this problem installing NodeJs version 12 10 0

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Another non-angular answer  I was facing the same issue building a react app on AWS Amplify   As mentioned by Emmanuel it seems that it comes from the difference in the way memory is handled by node v10 vs node v12  I tried to increase memory with no avail  But using node v12 did it  Check how you can add nvm use  VERSION NODE 12 to your build settings as explained by richard  frontend    phases      preBuild        commands          - nvm use  VERSION NODE 12         - npm ci     build        commands          - nvm use  VERSION NODE 12         - node -v         - npm run-script build

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