fwatch.nvim, run command or lua functions when files change

• lush.nvim

  40 1,323 6.1 Lua

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

Someone was asking about "responding to external events" with Lush which prompted me to make a small file watcher plugin for Neovim.

• fwatch.nvim

  5 75 0.0 Lua

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

It's called fwatch.

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• watchman

  31 12,275 9.0 C++

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

  

This is really cool, actually. I want to add file watching functionality to a plugin, and I was originally planning on using Watchman, but for some reason, I didn't even think about the possibility of just using luv. I'll give this a shot for sure.

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