chokidar VS move-file

chokidar

• The best testing setup for frontends, with Playwright and NextJS
  5 projects | dev.to | 18 Apr 2024

  For this, we'll use chokidar - more specifically the chokidar-cli package. chokidar is probably the most useful file watching library for the nodejs ecosystem and it will serve us well.

• 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...

• How nodemon works?
  1 project | /r/node | 19 Aug 2023

  The watching magic is really in the https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar library

• 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.

• dúvida provavelmente idiota
  1 project | /r/brdev | 23 Jan 2023
• 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.

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