I was recently introduced to a project build on MeteorJS. I’ve done a lot of work with NodeJS projects before, and have an environment already setup with everything I needed.
After installing Meteor using npm install meteor -g I could not run meteor --version without getting the following error:
E:\Code\node-on-fhir>meteor run
C:\Users\sean.mcilvenna\AppData\Local\.meteor\packages\meteor-tool\2.5.1\mt-os.windows.x86_64\dev_bundle\lib\node_modules\meteor-promise\promise_server.js:218
throw error;
^
RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
(Use `node --trace-uncaught ...` to show where the exception was thrown)After a great deal of investigating, I found a single comment on a deeply nested forum/thread that mentioned an issue with having a node_modules directory in my user’s folder, which was causing Meteor to excessively traverse UP the tree of node_modules. And that was my problem, as well.
There are several reasons for this problem, but the node_modules folder in my user’s primary folder was the source of my problem.
To solve this problem: delete your c:\users\<your_username>\node_modules folder.