Error from amplify init of front end - FATAL ERROR: Ineffective mark-compacts near heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory

[aburkleaux-amazon]

In the amplify init step, I am getting a "JavaScript heap out of memory" error building the application.

unicornflix/documentation/Backend.md

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* `amplify init`

There are several references to this error in the Amplify project that point to different versions of nodeJS as the issue:

aws-amplify/amplify-cli#5757
aws-amplify/amplify-cli#3708

I tried setting "react-scripts --max_old_space_size=8192 build" and explicitly setting the node version with nvm use $VERSION_NODE_12. Neither of these worked.

Using an EC2 with more memory (t3.small) in the Cloud9 environment fixed the issue for me.

I'm using all the defaults for the amplify build. The amplify version in Cloud9 is:

burkleaa:~/environment/UnicornFlix (master) $ amplify --version
7.6.22