Fix live-server ENOSPC System limit for the number of file watchers reached on Termux

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  1. If your device is rooted, on Termux, you can run the command as mentioned here: here to increase the number of files to be watched:
sysctl -n -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288  
  
# https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/5449#issuecomment-649954926
  1. Otherwise, simply use this option --ignorePattern

For example, to ignore the node_modules and . git

live-server --ignore=**/node_modules/**,**/.git/**  
  
# Or:   
live-server --ignorePattern='./node_modules'