Documentation on How to Ignore Files/Directories with Phonegap Serve and Create-React-App

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PhoneGap CLI, node & npm versions

Phonegap 8.2.2
Node 11.7.0
npm 6.5.0

Expected Behaviour

Be able to ignore inner node_modules directories or specific files, and reload on a save of index.html

Actual Behaviour

There is no documentation on how to ignore certain files or directories from the watch. I'm expecting some sort of flag or config file. Hits a watch limit on files and the phonegap app shuts down.

Steps to Reproduce

run an npm init and install create-react-app in www directory. Run server for react on port 3005. Run phonegap serve within your app root directory. You will hit a file watch limit error because phonegap is watching the entirety of node_modules and the changes that occur with create-react-apps reloading.
phonegap serve lingers for a while... then errors

Sample Code that illustrates the problem

www
_ node_modules
_ create react app scaffold

Error messages

[phonegap] [console.warn] Content Security Policy has been modified to be: <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self' data: gap: https://ssl.gstatic.com 'unsafe-eval' * ws:;style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' data: blob:;media-src *;img-src 'self' data: content: *;script-src * 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:;">
[phonegap] [console.warn] Content Security Policy has been added: <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src * gap: ws: https://ssl.gstatic.com;img-src * 'self' data: content:;style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' data: blob:;script-src * 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:;">
[phonegap] [console.warn] Content Security Policy has been added: <meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src * gap: ws: https://ssl.gstatic.com;img-src * 'self' data: content:;style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' data: blob:;script-src * 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' data: blob:;">
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Error: EMFILE: too many open files, open 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\connect-phonegap\res\middleware\autoreload.js'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:551:33)
    at C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\connect-phonegap\lib\util\scripts-to-inject.js:43:35
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at Object.getScripts (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\connect-phonegap\lib\util\scripts-to-inject.js:41:17)
    at new module.exports (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\connect-phonegap\lib\util\injector-transform.js:30:32)
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\connect-phonegap\lib\middleware\zip.js:85:49)
    at emitThree (events.js:136:13)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:217:7)
    at fn (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\walkdir\walkdir.js:93:19)
C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\conf\index.js:128
                        throw err;
                        ^

Error: EMFILE: too many open files, open 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\insight-nodejs\Config\insight-phonegap.json'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)
    at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:551:33)
    at Conf.get store [as store] (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\conf\index.js:108:18)
    at Conf.get (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\conf\index.js:47:27)
    at Insight.get optOut [as optOut] (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\node_modules\insight\lib\index.js:52:22)
    at Function.hasOptedOut (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\lib\cli\analytics.js:160:20)
    at Function.trackEvent (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\lib\cli\analytics.js:218:24)
    at process.<anonymous> (C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\phonegap\bin\phonegap.js:21:15)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at process.emit (events.js:211:7)

note:

I would be willing to settle for adjusting watch limits (running in Ubuntu 18).
But I think an ignore feature is needed.
react server is on a different port than phonegap