If your code isn’t being recompiled, try increasing the number of watchers (in Ubuntu): echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p Source: https://webpack.github.io/docs/troubleshooting.html
fsevents is dealt differently in mac and other linux system. Linux system ignores fsevents whereas mac install it. As the above error message states that fsevents is optional and it is skipped in installation process. You can run npm install –no-optional command in linux system to avoid above warning. Further information https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/14185 https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/5095
It’s a warning, not an error. It occurs because fsevents is an optional dependency, used only when project is run on macOS environment (the package provides ‘Native Access to Mac OS-X FSEvents’). And since you’re running your project on Windows, fsevents is skipped as irrelevant. There is a PR to fix this behaviour here: https://github.com/npm/cli/pull/169
There are several ways to do this depending on the platform. I would choose from the following choices: Cross Platform Trolltech’s Qt has an object called QFileSystemWatcher which allows you to monitor files and directories. I’m sure there are other cross platform frameworks that give you this sort of capability too, but this one works … Read more