Development server gets stuck at "Creating an optimized production build" step

[yancietroy]

Summary

I am trying to set up a Next.js project by following the installation tutorial. I ran npx create-next-app@latest successfully, but when I try to run the development server using npm run dev, the build process gets stuck at the "Creating an optimized production build" step:

- info Linting and checking validity of types
- info Using wasm build of next-swc
- info Creating an optimized production build ... (it stops here)

Steps to reproduce:

Run npx create-next-app@latest to create a new Next.js project.
Change to the project directory with cd .
Run npm run dev to start the development server.
Expected behavior: The development server starts successfully and listens for requests.

Actual behavior: The build process gets stuck at the "Creating an optimized production build" step, and the server doesn't start.

Environment:
Next.js version: v13.4.3
Node.js version: v18.15.0
npm version: 9.5.0
Operating System: Windows 11

Additional information

I have tried the following steps to resolve the issue, but none of them worked:

Removed the /.next folder.
Ensured that the development server is not running in the background.
Removed both the /.next and /node_modules folders and reinstalled the dependencies.
Any help would be appreciated.

There's no error message, it just stops.

Example

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[yancietroy]

i fixed it by updating node version to 18.16.0 and deleting .next folder and rerunning npm run dev again