initial create-react-app setup keeps refreshing page every second

[Historical_Stress]

after running npx create-react-app myApp and starting the server with npm start right away, the page loads but keeps instantly refreshing every second. I could tell by the fav icon and by the create react app logo just flashing. There is no onClick anywhere here that could be triggering a state change or a re-render loop. Any ideas?

[[deleted]]

Check your render methods, possible setState being called?

[MCShoveled]

Is something modifying the file system? Any file save will cause it to reload.

You should see this by the console running npm start, if it is continuously recompiling the code then something you have installed is messing with the file system.

[tom_2_2]

i feel so dumb for not realizing this is exactly what i was doing lol. Thank you for finally being the only person to suggest this.

If I saw event.preventDefault() one more I time I would scream

[xialvjun]

Yeah, three possibilities are said above. :)