react-dev-utils/clearConsole doesn't clear the console on windows

[DanielBadan]

Description

On windows the console is not cleared with \x1Bc char, it works though with \x1B[2J\x1B[3J\x1B[H but as I'm on windows it will never get to that.

Is there a compatibility issue that requires the win32 check?

What are you reporting?
Bug?

Expected behavior

Console should be cleared

Actual behavior

Console get's full with compilation logs

Environment

• Windows 10
• Node 7.8.0
• npm 4.2.0
• Git Bash 2.12.2
• Latest CRA

[Timer]

Does the console clear but retain it's history? This is the intended behavior iirc.

[Timer]

See #611 and #794.

[gaearon]

It would help to see the screenshots.
Also which console environment are you using?

[DanielBadan]

Terminal Type: xterm-256color

[gaearon]

How exactly are you launching the terminal? Imagine I have a clean Windows 10 installation. What do I need to do to reproduce this?

[DanielBadan]

When you install GitBash, 2 new options are available in the right click menu. Right click in the explorer and Git Bash Here

[gaearon]

Oh, I see. I'm not sure we can support the more exotic environments. We went through quite a few attempts to make it look right on OS X, Linux, and popular Windows environments (Cmd and PowerShell). Sorry 😞

[DanielBadan]

It is probably a node problem to. Just tested with different versions of node and using Node v.7.5.0 and up and was getting the same result(console not cleaning) in Cmd, PowerShell and GitBash.

[gaearon]

Interesting. If you can get it consistently reproducing with Cmd on Windows 10, we'll need to take a look.