Document when the app exits

[MrToph]

It's not clear to me when the app exits or what keeps it alive.
I tried the example with the counter that uses setInterval and the app keeps running.
In my code, I'm using some async calls but the app immediately exits.

I couldn't find any documentation regarding what keeps the app alive or how to disable it from exiting.

[vadimdemedes]

Can you create a minimal reproduction of the problem you're seeing?

[chrisdrackett]

I'm also curious how this works. In the base example if I have the counter running the app won't exit, but if I replace it with a Text it does, I'm also unclear what causes the app to keep running or exit.

[mAAdhaTTah]

This is less an Ink-specific thing and more a Node thing. The CLI stays alive as long as there are open tasks/processes for Node to run. Once those complete, it closes. setInternal keeps it alive because it continuously adds new tasks. Depending on what your async calls are doing, they could be the cause of the issue.

[mabasic]

I am totally confused here. When running the counter example I can't kill the program even if I use the kill command. I have to close the entire terminal in order for it to stop. WTF

[tuler]

I'm also having issues with the program not exiting. I wonder what are the tools and strategies to use to find what is the real issue.