VS Code file watch limit reached: node_modules not excluded

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Question: Is it safe to exclude these three sources in the Watcher Exclude settings of VS Code, and if so, how?

Issue

When running a Vue project with less than 50 files in VS Code, an error is thrown: Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached. Sources causing this are likely the following:

| Watchers | Source                                                                                                                   |
| -------- | ------                                                                                                                   |
| 4033     | /usr/share/code/code --max-old-space-size=3072 /usr/share/code/resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsse |
| 3889     | /usr/share/code/code /usr/share/code/resources/app/extensions/node_modules/typescript/lib/typingsInstaller.js --globalTy |
| 99       | /usr/share/code/code /usr/share/code/resources/app/out/bootstrap-fork --type=watcherService                              |

The default VS Code Watcher Exclude settings are:

"files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/.git/objects/**": true,
    "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
    "**/node_modules/**": true
  }

Is it safe to exclude these three sources in the Watcher Exclude settings of VS Code?

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Yes, it is safe to exclude these three sources in the Watcher Exclude settings of VS Code. To do so, add the following lines to your settings.json file:

"files.watcherExclude": {
    "**/.git/objects/**": true,
    "**/.git/subtree-cache/**": true,
    "**/node_modules/**": true,
    "**/typescript/lib/tsse/**": true,
    "**/typescript/lib/typingsInstaller.js/**": true,
    "**/out/bootstrap-fork/**": true
  }

This will exclude the three sources mentioned in the error message from being watched by VS Code, which should resolve the issue.