Thing is, I did dig into the webpack code after having the watcher not reloading with code changes. I can’t recall the details but there were several different

Thing is, I did dig into the webpack code after having the watcher not reloading with code changes. I can’t recall the details but there were several different packages that were thin wrappers around each other and ultimately inotify (or something at the bottom). One of those wrappers was silently hiding the error about not having enough watcher available at the file system level. I was not impressed with what I found.