chokidar
rimraf


chokidar | rimraf | |
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27 | 17 | |
11,209 | 5,710 | |
0.9% | 0.4% | |
8.9 | 7.2 | |
17 days ago | 7 months ago | |
TypeScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | ISC License |
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chokidar
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Migrating from chokidar 3.x to 4.x
A big win recently in the e18e space is that chokidar published a new 4.x version!
- Chokidar 4.0
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Boosting Rocket.Chat App Development with Hot Reload
I used the Chokidar library to watch for changes in the project directory. Chokidar detects file changes and triggers deployment commands automatically.
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How to build a Web IDE like codesandbox?
We have a file explorer and a terminal, since files or directories could also be modified via terminal we need a way to communicate those changes to frontend. For this I made use of Chokidar, this package lets us setup file system watcher (nodemon also makes use of chokidar) and through following callbacks we can communicate file system changes.
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The best testing setup for frontends, with Playwright and NextJS
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.
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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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How nodemon works?
The watching magic is really in the https://www.npmjs.com/package/chokidar library
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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.
rimraf
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Let’s Get Hands-On with WordPress FSE Theme and Custom Blocks — Part 2
First, I clean up the project from the old build using rimraf. Then, I compile all my files using Parcel along with its parcel/transformer-sass, plugin, and I process CSS using autoprefixer.
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The Bun Shell
And npmjs.com will block your IP if you do too many downloads in on day.
Actually is says 86m a week here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf
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PURISTA: Build with rimraf, esbuild, Turbo & git-cliff
Huge thanks to Isaacs! Rimraf comes to the rescue, providing a reliable solution for deep, recursive removal of folders and files. At PURISTA, we rely on rimraf to maintain pristine build output directories.
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Understanding package.json II: Scripts
Avoid platform-specific commands: Avoid using platform-specific commands in your scripts. Use cross-platform tools like Node.js or Bash to ensure that your scripts work on different platforms. For instance, if you want your npm script to remove a certain directory using the rm -rf command, this would work perfectly on a Linux or Mac machine but would error out on Windows. To avoid this, you can use a cross-platform package such as [rimraf](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf).
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Extended "run all specs" feature for Cypress 10
rimraf
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The minimal setup to package and reuse your React components
Babel will overwrite but not delete any existing files or directories in the output directory. To be sure the lib folder doesn’t contain old files you can delete it before transpiling. To do this automatically you can install rimraf and add it to the transpile script like this:
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4 reasons to avoid using `npm link`
Many packages on npm are designed to make changes to the file-system, such as rimraf or a code linter. In an accident, the consequences of running file-system altering code can be detrimental.
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Help Deleting STONKING File Path (over 3000 char +) WS2016 File Server
Also, rimraf seems to be popular.
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I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
No, that's why there's a bunch of packages such as rimraf[0] that implements that sort of functionality in a cross-platform way that most people use in their scripts
[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rimraf
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TIFU by accidentally creating over 15 million files on my computer
Something that might work: rimraf. A small node script can churn through file deletion surprisingly fast on Windows. Used to use it to clear out npm packages directories at a greater than glacial pace.
What are some alternatives?
Nodemon.io - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
del - Delete files and directories
Filehound - Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system
fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()
proper-lockfile - An inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility that works on a local or network file system.
globby - User-friendly glob matching
graceful-fs - fs with incremental backoff on EMFILE
mkdirp - Recursively mkdir, like `mkdir -p`, but in node.js
Watch-fn
cross-env

