chokidar VS globby

Compare chokidar vs globby and see what are their differences.

chokidar

Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library (by paulmillr)
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chokidar globby
22 7
10,489 2,455
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5.0 6.2
about 16 hours ago about 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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chokidar

Posts with mentions or reviews of chokidar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-04.
  • Why Does 'Is-Number' Package Have 59M Weekly Downloads?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
    tailwindcss -> chokidar -> braces -> fill-range -> to-regex-range -> is-number

    is-number was first published 9 years ago, when these kind of micro-packages were in vogue. braces was added as a dependency to chokidar over 6 years ago [1]. And if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I don't think the average JS dev today is going out and pulling in these deps.

    [1] https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/commit/cbdf25563cfff7f...

  • Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2023
    > It’s typical to listen to this stream of events and use chained if-else statements to determine an action based on the type of the events that occur.

    You'd think something like directory watching would have a clear set of events that would make nice objects with consistent meanings, but in my experience file watching gets crazy complicated, and can have all sorts of edge cases.

    Just take a looked here for all the various edge cases that crop up: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/issues

    Then you have linux, windows, macos, and maybe you want to abstract over some underlying implementation like chokidar vs fb/watchman vs webpack/watchpack. Every new OS release could also cause things to change.

    So usually its going to be a bunch of if-else statements hacked together to get around edge cases, and have to be revisited later on.

    Any attempt to abstract this into objects, just obfuscates things. And OO forces you to name things, when in fact they might be un-nameable. `FileSystemModifyEventExceptWhenXAndYAndSometimesZ`.

    The behavior might rely on a series of events together, so the object hierarchy must be re-worked.

    OO has this rosy idea that we just have to come up with the perfect hierarchy, but things change in unexpected ways, and everything must have a descriptive noun.

  • Is there anyway to auto reload the browser page when using express?
    2 projects | /r/learnjavascript | 13 Jun 2023
    Next, you can use a library like chokidar to listen for changes in your source directory. Create a ws server, and whenever a file changes, send a message.
  • How does nodemon works under the hood?
    4 projects | /r/node | 14 Mar 2023
    As another has mentioned, nodemon uses chokidar under the hood for the actual file watching part.
  • Turbowatch – Extremely fast alternative to Nodemon
    7 projects | /r/javascript | 13 Mar 2023
    At the end of the day, ironically, Nodemon does not even implement file watching functionality. It is a thin wrapper around chokidar (see source code), and the way it is being used is neither efficient (CPU and your battery usage) or performant. So it is not a false argument, just perhaps not the most appealing.
  • How is React's Hot Module Reloading implemented (at a medium-high level of detail)?
    3 projects | /r/reactjs | 15 Nov 2022
    for file watching, it might use something similar to https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar
  • Setup TailwindCSS, postcss and esbuild on Rails 7
    12 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2022
    First, we need to install chokidar to enable watching and automatically refreshing our files.
  • A complete guide to full-stack live reload
    9 projects | dev.to | 16 Mar 2022
    The Parcel build command doesn’t support a watch mode like Jest does, but I’d recommend checking out the chokidar package for some help building your own live reload pipeline.
  • Live reloading with Ruby on Rails and esbuild
    11 projects | dev.to | 6 Nov 2021
    To start, we’re going to use chokidar to watch our file system for changes, so that we can reload when we update a view or a CSS file, not just JavaScript files.
  • Electron Adventures: Episode 50: Refresh
    2 projects | dev.to | 12 Sep 2021
    Back when Orthodox File Managers were created, that was the whole list. Nowadays all operating systems have some sort of functionality of letting apps "watch" filesystem for changes, so it would just need to register that it's interested in some files or directories, and then it would receive a callback when that happens. Every operating system does it differently, and there are many gotchas and performance considerations, but a library like chokidar handles most of such issues already.

globby

Posts with mentions or reviews of globby. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chokidar and globby you can also consider the following projects:

Filehound - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system

Nodemon.io - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development

fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()

Watch-fn

filenamify - Convert a string to a valid safe filename

graceful-fs - fs with incremental backoff on EMFILE

rimraf - A `rm -rf` util for nodejs

find-up - Find a file or directory by walking up parent directories

parcel - The zero configuration build tool for the web. 📦🚀