Cannot watch specific dependencies in node_modules

Describe the bug

The documentation for server.watch contains the following example:

server: {
    watch: {
        ignored: ['!**/node_modules/your-package-name/**']
    }
},

This example does not work. It appears that the builtin **/node_modules/** exclude causes chokidar to not even look in node_modules despite the negation in the subdirectory.

It appears this was originally tested (see #5023 and #5239) with ignored: ['!**/node_modules/**']. This does work, but in a real project will almost immediately result in Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached.

See https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/issues/1225. I played with various chokidar options but I couldn’t see a way to achieve this.

Reproduction

See chokidar issue.

System Info

System:
    OS: Linux 5.4 Linux Mint 20.3 (Una)
    CPU: (12) x64 AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor
    Memory: 4.20 GB / 15.56 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.0.17 - /bin/bash
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.15.1 - /usr/bin/node
    npm: 8.1.1 - ~/npm/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 102.0.5005.61
    Firefox: 101.0
  npmPackages:
    vite: ^2.9.12 => 2.9.12

Used Package Manager

npm

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[SystemParadox]

Thanks, that’s very helpful as a temporary workaround until chokidar provides an official recommendation of how to fix this properly.

To preempt anyone who tries to close this:

1. I should not have to add a plugin to include/exclude files, especially since there is an option already for this - it just doesn’t work
2. Negative regex lookaheads are absolutely not acceptable as a long term solution

[SystemParadox]

@bluwy good thought but alas no, swapping the order doesn’t help:

ignored: [
    '!**/node_modules/foo/**',
    '**/node_modules/**',
],

Chokidar still seems to ignore the whole of node_modules and doesn’t bother looking inside it.