watchman VS Watch

Compare watchman vs Watch and see what are their differences.

watchman

Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change. (by facebook)

Watch

Watches for changes in a directory tree and reruns a command in an acme win or just on the terminal. (by weaveworks)
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watchman Watch
31 2
12,275 54
1.0% -
9.0 0.0
2 days ago over 1 year ago
C++ Go
MIT License -
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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.

Watch

Posts with mentions or reviews of Watch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-22.
  • How to monitor secret changes in Kubernetes?
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 22 Aug 2022
    URL: https://github.com/weaveworks/Watch
  • Restart container based on filesystem change ?
    4 projects | /r/docker | 5 Apr 2021
    Does anyone know "some" tool that will restart container based on filesystem change ? For example I am using this https://github.com/weaveworks/Watch for prometheus ( will trigger curl to prometheus API endpoint based on config change ). Of course I can spin as much as I need such containers to check as many as I need files/folders ( and then trigger docker api ), but thats nonsense. Main problem is that watch does not support multiple paths and triggers, what I found is https://github.com/facebook/watchman that can probably work, but that documentation is very tragic and there is almost no support.

What are some alternatives?

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

wireguard-ui - Wireguard web interface

docker-socket-proxy - Proxy over your Docker socket to restrict which requests it accepts

watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications

Reloader - A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!

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.

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

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

toggleterm.nvim - A neovim lua plugin to help easily manage multiple terminal windows

fwatch.nvim - fwatch.nvim lets you watch files or directories for changes and then run vim commands or lua functions.