ng serve dies quietly windows

[damiandennis]

Command

serve

Is this a regression?

• Yes, this behavior used to work in the previous version

The previous version in which this bug was not present was

17

Description

ng serve running on a windows client seems to die quietly for all new projects. existing projects that I have upgraded etc seem to still be ok.

Minimal Reproduction

npm install -g @angular/cli
ng new project
cd project
ng serve

pauses then dies without any indication of anything going wrong, even using --verbose nothing happens.

Exception or Error

no

Your Environment

os: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise
node: 20.15.0
ng: 18.2.11

Anything else relevant?

No response