filer vs watcher

filer

Node-like file system for browsers (by filerjs)

File Filesystem Fs Browser Indexeddb Posix NodeJS

watcher

The file system watcher that strives for perfection, with no native dependencies and optional rename detection support. (by fabiospampinato)

Fs File System Filesystem Watch Watcher

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filer		watcher
	Project
1	Mentions	1
599	Stars	97
0.2%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.4
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License	License	MIT License

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filer

Posts with mentions or reviews of filer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-19.

PR 1 for release 0.3
2 projects | dev.to | 19 Nov 2021

For our release 0.3 project we were to make a pull request for a external project outside of our class's repos and one pull request for an internal repo. For my external PR I worked and still am working on a library project that my professor maintains outside of Seneca called Filer. Filer is a drop-in library that works like node's fs module but for browsers. The issue I was working on was making a migration of parcel 1 to parcel 2.

watcher

Posts with mentions or reviews of watcher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-30.

Have you ever thought, how ‘nodemon’ works internally? Let’s build our own ‘nodemon’ in under 10 minutes!
2 projects | /r/node | 30 May 2021

I haven't looked into memory usage in chokidar too much, but it'd guess it's just wasting a lot of memory keeping useless data out of Stats objects into memory. You can check out my filesystem watcher (https://github.com/fabiospampinato/watcher) to see how it only keeps in memory that bits that it needs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing filer and watcher you can also consider the following projects:

chokidar - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library

draxt - draxt.js – NodeList/jQuery-like package for File System (node.js)

output-files - Output a tree of files and directories by providing an object. Especially useful for testing with real files.

i18next-fs-backend - i18next-fs-backend is a backend layer for i18next using in Node.js and for Deno to load translations from the filesystem.

broadcast-channel - :satellite: BroadcastChannel to send data between different browser-tabs or nodejs-processes :satellite: + LeaderElection over the channels https://pubkey.github.io/broadcast-channel/

validate-access - Parse a & Validate a given directory with multiple entries

s3fs - Drop in replacement for the Node.js fs library backed by AWS S3

terraria-world-file-js - 🌳 Terraria world file parser and saver written in javascript