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

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