watchman
Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change. (by facebook)
watchexec
Executes commands in response to file modifications (by watchexec)
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| watchman | watchexec | |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | 20 | |
| 12,275 | 4,870 | |
| 1.0% | 4.5% | |
| 9.0 | 8.6 | |
| 2 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| C++ | Rust | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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.
- Watchman – A File Watching Service
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Dev Container for React Native with Expo
postCreateCommand This section permit to execute a command after the build of the container. I've used this command to execute a script to install Expo and other dependencies like watchman
- Using Bun.js as a Bundler
- How To Monitor a Folder On Startup
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changedetection for file shares
Facebook open source product: https://github.com/facebook/watchman to get notified when configuration, file or other change
- [Media] OnChange: CLI utility to automatically run commands on file change (details in comments)
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Any else using Meta's née Facebook's Watchman service?
Facebook Meta's Watchman Service looks very useful for watching for changes in files and directories to kick off automation. Still, there seem to be a bunch of gotchas with it that only come to light after trying to mess with it. The docs seem lacking, the Python library needs to be updated, and even the installation on non-Ubuntu or Red Hat distros requires a rebuild, which has been somewhat problematic given the build tools. Also, no official Docker container.
- Show HN: I built a tool to get instant test results (
- Watchman: A File Watching Service
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Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
Not to be confused with Facebook’s file watch daemon, which does the same sort of thing but is more complicated. There’s a bunch of tools that integrate Facebook’s watchman for more efficient change tracking.
https://facebook.github.io/watchman/
watchexec
Posts with mentions or reviews of watchexec.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-01.
- Watchexec
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Watchexec ignore directory?
Hi, I am using Watchexec (https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec/releases) to monitor folder changes, but I want to exclude some folders. What parameter should I use to perform the route exclusions?
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How to automatically extract all zip files downloaded to certain directory?
Use https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
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My first actual Rust program: Cloak, a simple app to search and watch directories to automatically hide files and directories
There's something similar to this called watchexec, which you can have a look at https://github.com/watchexec/watchexec
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Turbowatch – Extremely fast alternative to Nodemon
Or use watchexec which will do 95% of what you need and you're not tied to nodejs.
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What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
watchexec
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is there a plugin to run any file (.py .js .java etc.) and display the output?
I use watchexec to automatically run the code when saved, you should customise this to your liking.
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[Paid Bounty-$20 in Bitcoin!] Persistent - Watchfolder() dir, if files contains word "apple" in name, make file Read only.
OTOH PowerShell will not keep watching and is one of the requirements. In the past I've successfully used watchexecrepo and inotifywaitrepo.
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How to automatically run a command when directory updates?
I prefer watchexec as it's cross-platform.
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What is the most underrated tool you encountered ?
Not specifically for frontend but a handy tool for quickly setting up auto-runners, auto-testers, auto-linters, auto-formattere etc etc. watchexec
What are some alternatives?
When comparing watchman and watchexec you can also consider the following projects:
wireguard-ui - Wireguard web interface
entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change
nvim-lsp-ts-utils - Utilities to improve the TypeScript development experience for Neovim's built-in LSP client.
fswatch - A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.
lush.nvim - Create Neovim themes with real-time feedback, export anywhere.
systemd-manager
Lsyncd - Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
go-git - A highly extensible Git implementation in pure Go.
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Watch - Watches for changes in a directory tree and reruns a command in an acme win or just on the terminal.
concurr - Performs distributed command execution, written in Rust w/ Tokio