feat(web): use daemon file-watcher for file-server executors

[Phillip9587]

TODO

• Check if daemon is available and fallback to @parcel/watcher or chokidar when not available.

Current Behavior

file-server executors of the angular and web package use chokidar to watch the app and lib directory

Expected Behavior

file-server executors use the daemon file-watcher

Related Issue(s)

Fixes #

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[Phillip9587]

@Cammisuli If the daemon is not available a fallback watcher using @parcel/watcher or chokidar has to be implemented. Can we make that a util somewhere in the nx package? It also has to be implemented for the nx graph --watch command.

I would suggest using chokidar because the parcel watcher does not work in for example stackblitz like environments (parcel-bundler/watcher#99)

[Phillip9587]

Also it think it should be considered deprecating the file-server executor in the @nrwl/angular package and migrating usages to the @nrwl/web file-server to reduce code duplication accross the repo.

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[Cammisuli]

Sorry for the incredibly long delay here 😅

The daemon has become much more stable the last couple of months, so having a fallback to use chokidar or parcel isn't needed at the moment.

There's still an issue with Stackblitz, but that's a bigger picture beyond the scope of this PR where the core of Nx needs to support wasm.

[Cammisuli]

Verified that changing dependent projects will rerun the main watch, just as intended 😄

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