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Why Does 'Is-Number' Package Have 59M Weekly Downloads?
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...
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Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart
> 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.
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Is there anyway to auto reload the browser page when using express?
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.
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How does nodemon works under the hood?
As another has mentioned, nodemon uses chokidar under the hood for the actual file watching part.
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Turbowatch – Extremely fast alternative to Nodemon
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.
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How is React's Hot Module Reloading implemented (at a medium-high level of detail)?
for file watching, it might use something similar to https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar
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Setup TailwindCSS, postcss and esbuild on Rails 7
First, we need to install chokidar to enable watching and automatically refreshing our files.
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A complete guide to full-stack live reload
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.
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Live reloading with Ruby on Rails and esbuild
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.
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Electron Adventures: Episode 50: Refresh
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.
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Add Spellchecker to Your Node.js Project
Files to be scanned/excluded are defined via globby which is based on node-glob
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How to create a sitemap with Next.js app directory
The snippet above uses globby to find each page.tsx in the app directory (collectPaths). After the file paths are collected, each path is transformed to the url path (createPath). The last step is to create the sitemap (createSitemap) and write to the public directory.
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How I Made My Portfolio with Next.js
First install globby and prettier.
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Sitemap: What is and how to generate it for a Next.js App
Because of this, we need to get all our page routes or at least the ones that are public. This is an easy task with globby, this lib allows us to get the name of the files based on regex URL on our folder structure.
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Simplifying styling in PWA Studio
Identifying local styling globby is a great tool for recursively scanning directories to find files or folders matching specific criteria, so we need to add that to our project.
What are some alternatives?
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. 📦🚀