node and Error: EMFILE, too many open files

Question

For some days I have searched for a working solution to an error

Error: EMFILE, too many open files

It seems that many people have the same proble

Answer 1

I am not sure whether this will help anyone, I started working on a big project with lot of dependencies which threw me the same error. My colleague suggested me to install watchman using brew and that fixed this problem for me.

brew update
brew install watchman

Edit on 26 June 2019: Github link to watchman