Early in the project that I am working at right now, I had to run npm run eject so that I could change where my /build folder would get generated so that the back-end could serve its contents.
In order to do this, first I modified the paths.js by changing the buildPath variable to my desired location.
Then I modified the webpack.config.js file by adding a filename property in the HtmlWebpackPlugin object inside plugins, to point to the build index.html. Also inside this same folder, I removed the /static start substring from everything that appeared in the file.
Lastly, I added a homepage property in package.json to point to my /static folder generated from build.
The production is working fine, but I am unable to start the development server now with this new configuration. Whenever I try to run npm start, it logs
events.js:352
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached, watch '/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/public'
at FSWatcher.<computed> (internal/fs/watchers.js:218:26)
at Object.watch (fs.js:1582:34)
at createFsWatchInstance (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:38:15)
at setFsWatchListener (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:81:15)
at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:233:14)
at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._handleDir (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:429:19)
at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:477:19)
at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:482:16)
at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (fs.js:193:5)
Emitted 'error' event on FSWatcher instance at:
at FSWatcher._handleError (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/index.js:260:10)
at createFsWatchInstance (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:40:5)
at setFsWatchListener (/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/node_modules/webpack-dev-server/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:81:15)
[... lines matching original stack trace ...]
at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (fs.js:193:5) {
errno: -28,
syscall: 'watch',
code: 'ENOSPC',
path: '/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/public',
filename: '/home/ccaon/hpcc-projects/hpcc-app-list/public'
