Overlay by thrown error at initial load is closed immediately

[woochanleee]

Bug report

Actual Behavior

Overlay by thrown error at initial load is closed immediately.

Untitled.mov

With debugger mode

bb9da7dd-05be-48da-8623-67247ab07fa2.mp4

Expected Behavior

Overlay by thrown error at initial load is not closed immediately.

How Do We Reproduce?

Just edit like below the photo to the overlay-example code. https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/blob/v4.15.1/examples/client/overlay/app.js#L49

Please paste the results of npx webpack-cli info here, and mention other relevant information

System:
  OS: macOS 13.4.1
  CPU: (10) arm64 Apple M1 Max
  Memory: 89.55 MB / 32.00 GB
Binaries:
  Node: 16.14.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.0/bin/node
  Yarn: 3.6.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.0/bin/yarn
  npm: 8.3.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.0/bin/npm
Browsers:
  Chrome: 120.0.6099.109
  Safari: 16.5.2
Global Packages:
  webpack-dev-server: 4.15.1

[snitin315]

I'll check this

[avinashii]

Hi @snitin315 ,

I was thinking to contribute to this issue , I am new to it.

is this a good issue to try my hands on , or its just opened since long.

[Anubhab2003]

Hey I am Interested in contributing this issue, How to get started ?

[geanfarias]

@snitin315 do you have news about this issue?

[geanfarias]

@woochanleee did you solved this at your project?

[woochanleee]

@woochanleee did you solved this at your project?

No, i didn't. 😢

[snitin315]

Will check this today

[kehach07]

Hi @snitin315 👋

This PR #5653 fixes the issue where the error overlay closes immediately when a runtime error occurs during the initial page load (#5024).

I would really appreciate it if someone could take a look when available. Thank you!