Why can't I access localhost any more?

garlin said:

This means your app isn't taking connections. Did the same app work at some point before?

Correct me if I'm wrong, Vuetify is only an UI framework and isn't a web server product. There should be some underlying web service that's hosting your app. From the Vue docs, they call this a "dev server".

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This particular app was only just created and has never worked before but it absolutely SHOULD work since I've just created the skeleton of the app ("scaffolding" in Javascript terms). In other words, I haven't written ANY code for this project yet, just let it create a skeleton, essentially a "Hello World" app. There's really nothing to go wrong in the app itself.

I've created and executed several apps before via localhost using Vue (with or without Vuetify) and Laravel.

I can't understand why I would suddenly be having a problem. The only anomalous event I can think of in recent weeks is that the Windows clipboard suddenly stopped working. I can't see what that would be related to localhost but it's the only thing that has happened with my system lately that I can imagine being connected. I don't know what killed the clipboard but the sfc command reported that it had found corrupted file(s). Could whatever corrupted the file(s) also have damaged localhost somehow? I'm getting the strong impression that this is very unlikely so maybe that's another red herring.

This *feels* like a Windows issue rather than a Vue issue but I am looking into that separately so if you are out of ideas on the Windows side, I'll just have to hope that the folks at Stackexchange help me figure this out.