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I like parcel a lot, but one issue I've always had is that it watches your node_modules folder. The devs kind of pawned it off as a "feature not a bug"[1], but

I like parcel a lot, but one issue I've always had is that it watches your node_modules folder. The devs kind of pawned it off as a "feature not a bug"[1], but it results in tons of warnings etc related to watching too many files. I've since started using a symbolic link to the actual node_modules folder, but it's still just 1 extra hurdle that would be nice to not have. [1]: https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1557#issuecomment-397980426 https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1557#issueco...

eerrt 7y ago
After a while, they switched to watching directories instead of files, which seems to solve the issue you describe of too many watched files. https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/pull/1665 https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/pull/1665
devongovett 7y ago
We’ve actually rewritten our watcher for Parcel 2 as a cross platform C++ module and it should be much more efficient. :) http://github.com/parcel-bundler/watcher http://github.com/parcel-bundler/watcher
jessaustin 7y ago
Haha, Chokidar [0] strikes again! So much time could have been saved by so many devs on Linux if that package had saner defaults. More than one of my package.json .scripts objects have "sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=32768" embedded somewhere... [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar