Brackets Freezes on Large Projects

[lbassuncao]

Since the version 1.5, Brackets become useless. I just can't open libraries like Laravel or Lumen on it, because it freezes indefinitely and then I have to kill the process to stop it. I was searching for a solution, and I couldn't find any solution for this problem.

I am using Ubuntu 15.10 with Gnome 3.

Thanks.

[petetnt]

Try excluding some of the heavier folders (third party folders, temporary folders...) out with an extension such as https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-file-tree-exclude. After the largest culprits are gone, you should be able to use Brackets normally.

[directrix1]

Is there a way to still use Brackets on projects with large number of files? It sure would be nice to not have to use a totally different interface to view the source of some library I'm using. Is there a way to turn off, whatever it is doing for the whole project, or just mark some folders as vendor folders so it won't scan them?

[petetnt]

Sadly I don't think there's an easy way currently but I totally feel your pain. I have an plan outlined for vastly improved blackboxing thirdparty and other similar folders here: #11833 (comment) but I most likely don't have time to work on it until early March (and no-one else has chosen to champion it yet AFAIK)

There's an PR involving changing the file watcher to third party lib instead of using the native node implementation in (#12190) that might or might not improve the situation. It's worth trying through.

[lbassuncao]

petetnt, I have tried the plugin you suggest, but it didn't solve the problem. This a rather curious problem... In version 1.4 everything works smoothly, but not on the recent versions 1.5+. Why is that?

[petetnt]

@assunluis80 Can you post your Health Report here (Help -> Health Report)

[swim]

Having the same issue as OP describes. Outside of an internal file black/white list the indexing brackets does seems to be super slow.

[K-Thompson]

@assunluis80 i'm wondering if you also have problem with code hints and completion? I do (see #11570). I can't prove it, but I also feel that the issue I'm having is related to the size of the project.

[lbassuncao]

@K-Thompson, Yes, I do. I am having all kind of problems with the new versions.

[abose]

Tye to add the preference "findInFiles.nodeSearch": false, in debug>open preferences file and see if the issue still exisits.
I am guessing the problem is with codehints though.

[lbassuncao]

petetnt here is the help report:

{
"uuid": "aecf56d4-299f-4db9-89ad-d52105e3b417",
"snapshotTime": 1456309083983,
"os": "linux",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.80 Safari/537.36",
"osLanguage": "en",
"bracketsLanguage": "en-gb",
"bracketsVersion": "1.6.0-16680",
"fileStats": {
"openedFileExt": {
"csslintrc": 1,
"css": 10,
"js": 134,
"less": 18,
"html": 23,
"php": 16,
"ico": 1,
"jshintrc": 26
},
"workingSetFileExt": {
"js": 33,
"less": 8,
"css": 2,
"html": 6,
"php": 5,
"jshintrc": 4
}
},
"ProjectDetails": {
"prj1068132899": {
"numFiles": 107,
"cacheSize": 2177399
},
"prj54042242": {
"numFiles": 6088,
"cacheSize": 30157782
},
"prj94539993": {
"numFiles": 6169,
"cacheSize": 30611634
}
},
"projectLoadTimes": ":0",
"fileOpenTimes": ":0",
"ModuleDepsResolved": 426,
"AppStartupTime": 427,
"prefNodeSearchDisabled": false,
"prefInstantSearchDisabled": false,
"installedExtensions": [
{
"name": "stripper-theme",
"version": "0.1.1"
},
{
"name": "brackets-ubuntu",
"version": "0.9.1"
},
{
"name": "lintyai",
"version": "1.2.0"
},
{
"name": "camden.csslint",
"version": "2.0.21"
},
{
"name": "brackets-file-tree-exclude",
"version": "1.0.4"
},
{
"name": "camden.jshint",
"version": "2.2.18"
},
{
"name": "brackets-emmet",
"version": "1.2.2"
},
{
"name": "brackets-beautify",
"version": "1.2.0"
},
{
"name": "brackets-code-folding",
"version": "0.3.5"
}
],
"bracketsTheme": "stripper-theme"
}

[petetnt]

@assunluis80 Both prj54042242 and "prj94539993 seem to contain massive amounts of files (over 6000). Can you share what kinds of files does the project consist of?

[lbassuncao]

Its the Laravel framework (https://laravel.com/).

[alexeyoganezov]

I have the same problem on Node.js/Sails.js apps

Can you share what kinds of files does the project consist of?

There is a large number of files inside "node_modules" folder in my case

[petetnt]

@assunluis80 I haven't done PHP development but make sure you ignore folder that contains laravel and other third party items when using the https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-file-tree-exclude extension. If you have installed it with Composer I think the folder you should ignore vendor/?

For @Ivan1810 that above extension should work out of the box.

[lbassuncao]

Excluding the folder "vendor" on plugin is helping... But I still don't have code hints and completion. :(

[guillecro]

I will put emphasis on this. Same happened to me, after using https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-file-tree-exclude now it works but nowadays projects with large dependencies are very common..

[TamerHussien]

i tried it in other way
i moved the poject files from its location because when i open brackets it gets freeze immediately then open brackets and install https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-file-tree-exclude from extension manager with the instructions and the open the project again from the new location it works with me