watcher VS watchman

Compare watcher vs watchman and see what are their differences.

watcher

watcher is a Go package for watching for files or directory changes without using filesystem events. (by radovskyb)

watchman

Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change. (by facebook)
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watcher watchman
3 31
1,441 12,263
- 0.9%
0.0 9.0
7 months ago 7 days ago
Go C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT License
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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 2023-06-27.

watchman

Posts with mentions or reviews of watchman. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-22.

What are some alternatives?

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

switchboard - Auto-magic file organisation and routing for all your machines. :open_file_folder:

wireguard-ui - Wireguard web interface

bugsnag - Well-documented, maintainable, idiomatic, opinionated, and *unofficial* rewrite of the Bugsnag Go notifier

watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications

yubikey-touch-detector - A tool to detect when your YubiKey is waiting for a touch (to send notification or display a visual indicator on the screen)

nvim-lsp-ts-utils - Utilities to improve the TypeScript development experience for Neovim's built-in LSP client.

lush.nvim - Create Neovim themes with real-time feedback, export anywhere.

hotbuild - a cross platform hot compilation tool for golang

Lsyncd - Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets

fsnotify - Cross-platform file system notifications for Go.

go-git - A highly extensible Git implementation in pure Go.