watcher VS fsnotify

Compare watcher vs fsnotify 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)

fsnotify

Cross-platform file system notifications for Go. (by fsnotify)
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watcher fsnotify
3 23
1,440 7,047
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0.0 6.8
6 months ago almost 2 years ago
Go Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" 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.

fsnotify

Posts with mentions or reviews of fsnotify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-27.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

juicefs - JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.

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

gcsfuse - A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage

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)

reflex - Run a command when files change

watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.

goofys - a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go

watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications

notify - File system event notification library on steroids.

hotbuild - a cross platform hot compilation tool for golang

go-systemd - Go bindings to systemd socket activation, journal, D-Bus, and unit files