Resolving Glitch issues

Apr 27, 2020

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)

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