FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory [Solved]

[lucafalefoto]

While running quire preview, I encountered the following error:

<--- JS stacktrace --->
FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
[...]

In my case, this happened because the project contains many high-resolution images, and Node.js has a default memory limit that was being exceeded.

If you run into the same issue, you can increase the memory limit by starting quire preview like this:

NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096" quire preview

This raises the available memory to 4 GB and should prevent the error. You can adjust the number (e.g., 8192 for 8 GB) if your system has enough RAM.

Just for your info, but this tip should possibly be included in Quire's documentation, maybe here: https://quire.getty.edu/docs-v1/quire-commands/

Thanks for your attention.

[Erin-Cecele]

Thank you for this tip @lucafalefoto. I will be sure to add this to the documentation!