Dapp won't load after basic initialisation

[listenlight]

Hello, please forgive my newbity on posting issues.

I am following the basic initialisation tutorial on the Truffle site— https://truffleframework.com/boxes/drizzle. I get an error I can only begin to describe with a screenshot. The app freezes on the "Loading dapp" junction.

node v8.11.3 (LTS)
npm 5.6.0

latest truffle and ganache-cli installed last night (Aug 2, 2018). Thank you for any and all help, and of course, for all the free and awesome software.

[listenlight]

I wonder if this is relevant...

[drizzle (master)]$ node -v
v8.11.3
[drizzle (master)]$ npm -v
5.6.0

   ╭─────────────────────────────────────╮
   │                                     │
   │   Update available 6.2.0 → 6.3.0    │
   │     Run npm i -g npm to update      │
   │                                     │
   ╰─────────────────────────────────────╯

[adrianmcli]

Try running in a browser without MetaMask (like Incognito, or disable the MetaMask extension).

[janvde]

Make sure you are connecting to the same port ganache runs on. Also, when using metamask, connect to your local testnet.

[pors]

For development, it's fine to connect to Ganache, but in production, we need to rely on MetaMask connecting to mainnet right? Does that actually work?

[adrianmcli]

@pors yes it works, but you need to make sure your project is properly configured. Also check out this part of the docs.

[pors]

@adrianmcli thanks Adrian. I'll give that a try!

[joshma91]

@tidelake are you still having this issue? It's a silly reason, but the instructions in step 4 of the README were incorrect and would lead to the error you're seeing if you followed the guide and typed compile and migrate in the same window you ran ganache-cli.

[listenlight]

@joshma91 I've not used redux/drizzle since then. I'm just working with react & solidity for now. Thank you. Also learned a fair bit about managing nvm/node/npm since then. I may have had 2 or 3 node installations at the time. Now I use only nvm. Thank you.

[joshma91]

@tidelake no problem! Thanks for the prompt reply. @adrianmcli I think this can be closed now.

[adrianmcli]

Great!