Description

Chokidar is slow and known to have issues with file descriptor limits when working with large projects. Parcel's watcher is much faster out of the box and additionally supports watchman as a backend, which improves support for Windows and minimizes overhead for projects already using watchman.

Nuxt recently added support for @parcel/watcher: nuxt/nuxt#20179

Suggested solution

Add option to use @parcel/watcher

Alternative

No response

Additional context

Related issues:

• Vite dev hangs indefinitely without errors on page with many components and imports #11468
• Consider replacing chokidar with filespy #2547 (comment)
• Use fs.watch instead of chokidar if Node.js >=v19.1 #12495
• limit dev watcher to avoid overhead from third party processes writing to root #8341
• Vite dev server holds a lock on directories that have nested directories #11938

Twitter discussion https://twitter.com/patak_dev/status/1649060364431028226

Validations

• Follow our Code of Conduct
• Read the Contributing Guidelines.
• Read the docs.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that request the same feature to avoid creating a duplicate.