I'm new with react... Well i had the same output:
Starting the development server...
events.js:196
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached, watch '/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/public'
at FSWatcher.<computed> (internal/fs/watchers.js:168:26)
at Object.watch (fs.js:1351:34)
at createFsWatchInstance (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:38:15)
at setFsWatchListener (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:81:15)
at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:233:14)
at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._handleDir (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:429:19)
at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:477:19)
at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:482:16)
at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (fs.js:165:5)
Emitted 'error' event on FSWatcher instance at:
at FSWatcher._handleError (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/index.js:260:10)
at createFsWatchInstance (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:40:5)
at setFsWatchListener (/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:81:15)
[... lines matching original stack trace ...]
at FSReqCallback.oncomplete (fs.js:165:5) {
errno: -28,
syscall: 'watch',
code: 'ENOSPC',
path: '/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/public',
filename: '/opt/lampp/htdocs/react-tuto/public'
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `react-scripts start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/paulo/.npm/_logs/2019-12-16T16_46_27_856Z-debug.log
I just tried:
sudo npm start
And it worked.