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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 19:19:08 JST Aral Balkan

   As of version 19.1.0, the Node.js fs module adds recursive watching on Linux.

   Wondering if this means we can eventually stop using Chokidar…

   https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/3770d3a450fb3b65808d312cc33bdda3de92f6d4

   #nodeJS #dev #javascript #js

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 20:05:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • tjgillis

     @tjgillis Chokidar is a library for file system watching. Nodemon is a tool for restating your server when your source code changes. (You could implement Nodemon using Chokidar.)

   • tjgillis (tjgillis@mastodon.openbracket.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 20:05:08 JST tjgillis

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     @aral I don't do much Js work so sorry if this is a stupid question. Why use chokidar over nodemon?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 20:58:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ondřej Synáček

     @comatory Yeah, it uses a native fsevents module on macOS.

     Native watch also apparently interfaces with fsevents so not sure if native watch is up to par on macOS. Will have to run tests.

     I really want to remove all native modules from Kitten (https://codeberg.org/kitten/app). Will make my life so much easier.

   • Ondřej Synáček (comatory@kompost.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Dec-2022 20:58:48 JST Ondřej Synáček

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     @aral nice it always feels difficult to have file watching functionality easily embedded. Chokidar also brings some compiled code if I’m not mistaken.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 02:13:47 JST Aral Balkan

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     To answer my own question, no.

     It looks like the recursive watch in Node.js does 5 second polling. If you turn recursive off, you get instant notifications (although two of each for an edit on a file).

     #nodeJS #dev #fs

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 04:27:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     If you’re looking for an alternative to Chokidar that doesn’t use any native modules for file system watching in Node.js, take a look at Watcher:

     https://github.com/fabiospampinato/watcher

     #NodeJS #dev #fs #Watcher #Chokidar #js #JavaScript

   • Frishi (frishi@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 19:08:40 JST Frishi

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     @aral thanks for posting this!! I was stuck with `chokidar` for a while!

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Dec-2022 19:08:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Frishi

     @Frishi Chokidar is excellent, don’t get me wrong, but not having a native module is a huge advantage (at least for my use case).