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A native C++ Node module for querying and subscribing to filesystem events. Used by Parcel 2.
Last release 2 months ago
20 Jul 2026
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8 years old
40 releases · first in 2018
Adds support RegExp ignores in #248 . Thanks @SimenB !
One column per quarter.
patch: fix SEGV due to Static Initialization Order Fiasco bug by @alichtman in #208
D_FORTIFY_SOURCE flag by @bpasero in #223picomatch@2.3.1 by @bpasero in #224Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.5.4
Handle large changes from FS Events better in getEventsSince - #196
Support 32-bit arm musl platform
--build-from-source flag to optionally build from source instead of using prebuilt packages. Can be used in conjunction with --no-optional to prevent installing platform-specific dependencies.Nothing published for this version
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Adds support for CommonJS (along with existing support for ESM) in @parcel/watcher-wasm .
Adds support for CommonJS (along with existing support for ESM) in @parcel/watcher-wasm.
Add a kqueue backend to support FreeBSD, or as an alternative to FSEvents on macOS
@parcel/watcher-wasm package instead of @parcel/watcher in these cases. Note that this is much less efficient than using native OS-specific APIs, so keep using the native packages where possible.@parcel/watcher from multiple Node.js worker threadsNothing published for this version
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This release migrates to a new method of distribution. Rather than including binaries for all operating systems and architectures inside the @parcel/w
This release migrates to a new method of distribution. Rather than including binaries for all operating systems and architectures inside the @parcel/watcher package, there are now individual packages per platform (e.g. @parcel/watcher-darwin-x64). Each of these is an optional dependency of the main watcher package. This way, npm and other package managers will install only the binary for the platform you are running on. This reduces bandwidth and disk space.
This also enabled us to add pre-compiled binaries for more platforms, meaning you don't need to have a C++ compiler to install the watcher. This should help with some minimal Docker environments especially. The architectures with prebuilds available now include:
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Support simple glob patterns for ignore rules – #106
Ignore duplicate events from FSEvents for the same mtime
Update debounce to emit the first update immediately, and always emit at least one event every 500ms – https://github.com/parcel-bundler/watcher/pull/
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Fixed a bunch of segfaults caused by multiple threads accessing same data
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cd500e7d83263d25a3d9c43c43d3b3f71bf9f867 2.0.0-alpha.5
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e8047922c83ad638f518acea4c7a86efbd9f8bf4 2.0.0-alpha.4
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1e9aaac9e6da092f9db98a3ef62e38470bc75cbb fix github connection
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51c9a8c6a10d9df4e78d93f34afd3089c413d80b correct version
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