Ogle

Thin wrapper for fs.watch with glob-pattern matching.

Example

var watcher = new Ogle(['lib/some-dir/', 'lib/some-dir/*.js']);

watcher.on('add', function(dir, newFile) {
  console.log("File %s added to directory %s", newFile, dir);
});

watcher.on('change', function(filePath) {
  console.log("File %s changed", filePath);
});

watcher.on('remove', function(filePath) {
  console.log("File %s was deleted", filePath);
});

watcher.on('all', function(event, filePath, otherPath) {
  switch(event) {
    case 'add':
      console.log("File %s added to directory %s", filePath, otherPath);
      break;
    case 'change':
      console.log("File %s changed", filePath);
      break;
    case 'remove':
      console.log("File %s deleted", filePath);
      break;
  }
});

Why?

There are already many wrappers on fs.watch/fs.watchFile. Unfortunately, non of them seemed to be usable without making sacrifices. Ogle chooses the following advantages:

• glob pattern matching
• all/remove/change events on files
• all/add/remove/change events on directories
• Auto-adding of listeners for new files in directories (if we are watching the directory)
• Use of fs.watch instead of fs.watchFile. See here for why.

Complete documentation

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