Forge App suddenly not loading

Posting this as this caused me 2 hours of headache trying to figure out what was happening.

I am developing a custom UI application with Forge and it was working well, I went away from my computer for 30 minutes, and when I came back, made some changes, and re-deployed, it was no longer working.

Turns out, earlier, I had tried to use ‘forge tunnel’ and it had not properly closed. I do not know what was happening as I couldn’t see any logging, but after I had deleted the container and runtime for the docker, it started working again.

To Atlassian, perhaps this is a bug that could be investigated or not. Unfortunately, I do not have any logs or ways to recreate it.

To Forge devs, hope this could help you if you find yourself in a similar situation.

Similar issue happened to me last night. New tunnels weren’t behaving as expected, only to find two extra Docker containers. Removed them and then everything started working again. Unfortunately, I don’t have any real details to add other than you were not alone.