Resolving Glitch issues

Apr 27, 2020

Houssein Djirdeh

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web.dev uses Glitch to embed web-based sample apps and development environments in its posts and codelabs. See the Sample apps post for information about how to set up a Glitch.

This post will show you how to resolve some common Glitch issues.

Project is suspended #

If you see a "Project has been suspended" message when opening a new project, contact support via their public forum or by emailing support@glitch.com. You should receive a reply soon with steps you can take to fix your project.

Exceeding disk usage #

If you see an App Status warning with exceeded disk limits, you'll need to clear up some space before you can edit and use the project.

• Remove any unnecessary dependencies from package.json
• In the terminal, run git gc and git prune to remove unneeded files
• Run du -hd1 to to see which directories are taking up disk space

If an unneeded directory is bloating up on every build and taking up disk space:

• Remove it (rm -rf directory_name)

• Consider adding a prestart script in package.json to ensure it gets deleted on every build

  "scripts": {
    "prestart": "rimraf directory_name",
    "start": "..."
  },

If the .git directory is taking up disk space:

• Run git log --name-only --format="" | cat | sort | uniq -c | sort -nbr to see which files are being committed to history (note: this will still include files previously committed even if they are now in .gitignore)

• If you see any directories committed many times that shouldn't be, add them to .gitignore
• If you don't need .git history, remove the .git folder (rm -rf .git)