When you are watching huge folders, like a big ass node_modules folder you will probably hit the ulimit / inotify limit on mac osx.. We currently die hard when this happens.
fs.js:837
throw errnoException(errno, 'watch');
^
Error: watch EMFILE
at errnoException (fs.js:806:11)
at FSWatcher.start (fs.js:837:11)
at Object.fs.watch (fs.js:861:11)
at Notify.watch (/Users/V1/Projects/observing/square/node_modules/fs.notify/notify.js:93:42)
at Array.forEach (native)
at Notify.add (/Users/V1/Projects/observing/square/node_modules/fs.notify/notify.js:44:11)
at _filter (/Users/V1/Projects/observing/square/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:236:13)
at async.forEach (/Users/V1/Projects/observing/square/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:94:25)
at _filter (/Users/V1/Projects/observing/square/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:233:17)
at Object.fs.exists [as oncomplete] (fs.js:91:19)
When you are watching huge folders, like a big ass
node_modulesfolder you will probably hit the ulimit / inotify limit on mac osx.. We currently die hard when this happens.