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Package description
The fsevents npm package is a Node.js module that provides native and efficient file system event watching on macOS. It is designed to be used by Node.js applications to receive notifications when the contents of a directory change, including file creations, modifications, and deletions. It leverages the macOS FSEvents API for optimal performance and accuracy.
Watching for file changes
This feature allows you to watch a directory for changes and execute a callback function whenever a change is detected. The callback receives the path of the changed file, flags that describe the change, and an event ID.
const fsevents = require('fsevents');
const watcher = fsevents.watch('/path/to/dir', (path, flags, id) => {
console.log('File changed:', path);
});
watcher.start();
Stopping the watcher
This feature allows you to stop watching for file changes. It is useful when you no longer need to monitor a directory or when your application is shutting down.
watcher.stop();
Chokidar is a file watching package that works across multiple platforms, including macOS, Windows, and Linux. It provides a high-level API for file system notifications and is often used as an alternative to fsevents for cross-platform compatibility. Chokidar uses fsevents on macOS for performance but falls back to other methods on other operating systems.
The watch package is another file system watcher for Node.js. It is less efficient than fsevents because it uses polling to detect changes rather than native file system events. This can result in higher CPU usage and less immediate change detection compared to fsevents.
Node-watch is a simple and lightweight file watching library. Like chokidar, it aims to provide a consistent API across different platforms. It does not rely on native extensions, which can make it easier to install than fsevents, but it may not offer the same level of performance on macOS.
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Native access to OS X FSEvents in Node.js
The FSEvents API in OS X allows applications to register for notifications of changes to a given directory tree. It is a very fast and lightweight alternative to kqueue.
This is a low-level library. For a cross-compatible file watching module that uses fsevents, check out Chokidar.
$ npm install fsevents
var fsevents = require('fsevents');
var watcher = fsevents(__dirname);
watcher.on('fsevent', function(path, flags, id) { }); // RAW Event as emitted by OS-X
watcher.on('change', function(path, info) { }); // Common Event for all changes
watcher.start() // To start observation
watcher.stop() // To end observation
All events except fsevent take an info object as the second parameter of the callback. The structure of this object is:
{
"event": "<event-type>",
"id": <eventi-id>,
"path": "<path-that-this-is-about>",
"type": "<file|directory|symlink>",
"changes": {
"inode": true, // Has the iNode Meta-Information changed
"finder": false, // Has the Finder Meta-Data changed
"access": false, // Have the access permissions changed
"xattrs": false // Have the xAttributes changed
},
"flags": <raw-flags>
}
Copyright (C) 2010-2014 Philipp Dunkel
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Native Access to MacOS FSEvents
We found that fsevents demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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