scanwatch

Scan files and watch for changes

Fast and simple file watcher for Node without all the fanciful decoration

Scanwatch has following features

• extremely fast and simple (242 lines of code and 4 deps only)
• follow symlinks
• ignore subpaths with minimalist and regex
• events callback file scan, skip, changed, deleted

scanwatch version 0.1.9 (see version history below for details)

• NodeJS 16.x (Lastest). Scanwatch works with older version also like 8.x

Using npm:

npm i scanwatch

Using yarn:

yarn install scanwatch

Using pnpm:

pnpm i scanwatch

Create options {...} object with paths and scanwatch options then run scanwatch.setup(options, callback)

Usage example:

  var scanwatch = require('scanwatch')

  var options = {
    debug: 1,
    common: {
      ignore: [
        '.git',
        '.git/**',
        /^test\/.*/,
        'node_modules',
        'node_modules/**',
        'node_modules/**/.*',
        'node_modules/**/.*/**'
      ]
    },
    paths: {}
  }
  options.paths[__dirname] = {
    ignore: [
      /^\.idea.*/
    ]
  }
  options.paths[__dirname+'/node_modules'] = {}

  scanwatch.setup(options, function fileChanged(type, path) {
    if (type == 'skip') {
      console.log('[skipping]', path)
      return
    }
    console.log(type, path)
  })

Scanwatch use simple API for your files

Scanwatch your paths

scanwatch.setup(options, function fileChanged(type, path) {
  ...
})

debug: 0|1 console log debug information

common = {} common options

common.ignore = [] ignore patterns array with regex or minimist format

paths = {} paths object. each path is key like options.paths[__dirname+'/node_modules'] = {}

scan - initial scan

skip - file skipped

changed - file changed

deleted - file deleted

Scanwatch use self-documenting code and architecture with livecomment

Install livecomment

npm -g i livecomment

Run live docs

livecomment --path node_modules/scanwatch

open http://localhost:3070/

and see code docs like this

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Changelog

• 0.1.9 bugfix: fix minimatch 10.0.1
• 0.1.8 bugfix: fix symlink dir bug. update readme show
• 0.1.7 bugfix: scan files crash Changelog
• 0.1.6 bugfix: watch/delete for new/deleted files/dirs