Window disappears when requiring a lib with a large dependency

[kuba-orlik]

I've been encountering random "soft crashes" of my simple react-yue app. The app started to crash once I added require("jsdom") to it. I assumed that something in jsdom interferes with node-gui and spent more than 3 days looking for a cause. Eventually I realized it's not the content of the required dependency, but its size.

How to reproduce

I'll use react-yue-app as the simplest example.

After cloning the repo, running the app as it is works just fine.

Then let's generate a large JSON file:

seq 20000000 | awk 'BEGIN {print "["} {print $0 ","} END {print "\"end\"]"}' > numbers-large.json

and then add

require("./numbers-large.js");

to the app code.

Now the app runs, but no window appears. Putting require("./numbers-large.js"); in a setTimeout causes the window to appear, and then disappear after a short amount of time.

The app doesn't crash. The window just disappears.

EDIT: on some occasions the window doesn't disappear immediately, but after around 8 seconds.