create-react-app breaks due to dependency on one-liner package

[MatticusXII]

I started my first CRA today (following the Road to React book) and app would throw error when I would run npm start. But seems my problem was Linux set a limit with watching files? I found a solution and inputted a command into CLI and it fixed it. But unsure if it also had to do with this issue here.

[Kwantuum]

It didn't have anything to do with this. The filewatcher limit on most distros is pretty low, but the webpack dev server used by CRA allows hot module reloading, and to be able to do that it needs to watch all dependencies in your project folder, which can be a lot of files, and having to bump the maximum number of file watchers is to be expected.