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dev: convex dev needs a TTY — headless pnpm dev gets stuck #19
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👋 Claude here
Problem: convex dev wants an interactive terminal. An agent (or any headless process) running pnpm dev gets stuck waiting on prompts — CLAUDE.md documents the manual workaround (run pnpm convex dev --once first).
Options we considered and rejected for now:
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A pty wrapper (spawn
script(1), branch BSD vs GNU) — opencon has one, but:the pty wrapper wasn't used in a long time, I'd remove it
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Keeping the template minimal was the priority:
I'd keep this minimal (not add much beyond default convex) and we can look into it later
Open question to investigate later: does Convex now offer a native headless / non-interactive dev mode (a flag, an env var, a documented CI recipe)? If so, adopt that instead of a custom wrapper. Until then the template keeps the documented convex dev --once workaround.
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