- File watcher module wrapper using
chokidar.watch- reveiving a list of file paths to watch and triggers events on changes. - Run webapps with livereloading - Used as a live reload tool for reloading browser and server depending on files changed.
Some notes regarding filesystem watch:
- chokidar polling - Legacy file changes checking using 'usePolling' flag for chokidar.
- Increasing OS file watch number - check maximum number of inotify watches - cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches - as per https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13751/kernel-inotify-watch-limit-reached
- Docker inotify compatibility with Windows - to allow Linux inotify to fire a file change event use - "docker-volume-watcher" on the Windows host (it is a python program that watches files on the host using native directory/files change triggers, rather than polling).