webpack --watch exits after building once

Question

I was using webpack --watch statement to run my webpack in watch mode for building my ReactJS app. However for some reason, it stopped working now. It now just

Answer 1

This happen mostly because it watches the node_modules folder and exceeds the limit. In this case, rather than modifying the host system, use:

  watchOptions: {
    aggregateTimeout: 300,
    poll: 1000,
    ignored: /node_modules/
  }

to the webpack.config.js exports.