I am building frontend of a web app using vuejs. till yesterday my app was running fine but all of sudden today yarn serve command is throwing an error. 
 Error: watch /home/abhey/Documents/abhey/astrix/astrix_final_project/ecommerceFrontend/public ENOSPC
    at _errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
    at FSWatcher.start (fs.js:1382:19)
    at Object.fs.watch (fs.js:1408:11)
    at createFsWatchInstance (/home/abhey/Documents/abhey/astrix/astrix_final_project/ecommerceFrontend/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:37:15)
    at setFsWatchListener (/home/abhey/Documents/abhey/astrix/astrix_final_project/ecommerceFrontend/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:80:15)
    at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (/home/abhey/Documents/abhey/astrix/astrix_final_project/ecommerceFrontend/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:232:14)
    at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._handleDir (/home/abhey/Documents/abhey/astrix/astrix_final_project/ecommerceFrontend/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:414:19)
    at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/home/abhey/Documents/abhey/astrix/astrix_final_project/ecommerceFrontend/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:462:19)
    at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/home/abhey/Documents/abhey/astrix/astrix_final_project/ecommerceFrontend/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:467:16)
    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:153:5)
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
I did try to look into the documentation but it was of no use. I also tried to start a new project altogether but it was of no help. any suggestions? if it's of any use I am using Linux Mint 19 as my os.