I am working on a React Js Project. I tested all of the current functionalities and everything worked as expected.

I proceeded to work on some styling aspects before continuing with the functionality and noticed that my webpage wouldn't update. For example, I would just change a background-color or some other style prop to something obnoxious and noticeable to see if it would update. It wouldn't.

I was also unable to do anything with the URL. For example, if I was on http://localhost:3000/messages and I tried to delete the /messages aspect of the url, the page gets stuck loading infinitely.

I also utilize a local token in the local storage, and I suddenly found myself unable to delete it. When I close the window it informs me that the page has become unresponsive. When its in this state also, I am unable to click on anything. I know this to be true because I have a side nav component that works everywhere but once the app freezes like this it doesn't function.

Before continuing it is imperative to note that this error exists on my machine only. It still works on anyone else's machine if they have access to the codebase.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I don't even know what code to show you because this error seemingly came out of nowhere.

Now whenever I run npm start to start it, it brings me to the local host, but nothing renders at all. No token, no console statements at all, no ability top refresh or type in the URL. I tried downgrading react-scripts to 3.4.4 but that threw a whole slew of other errors.

And before someone suggests that there's an infinite loop somewhere I can promise you there isn't

If anyone even has an idea what could be going on-- something with PIDs or the kernel or the OS or something that would be help, I truly have absolutely no idea what to even look up for help on this and everyone at my office has hit a wall with this