Command-line filesystem watcher, useful for running commands when something changes. Has only three direct dependencies and uses no native code!

⚠️ This uses sents under the hood, which is a fast watcher with zero dependencies and no native code. Try it out if you'd like even fewer dependencies!

Usage

npm install sents-cli

# for info on command-line args
sents --help

# to print all CSS files that have changed
sents "foo/**/*.css"

# to print everything in a folder
sents "path/to/folder"

# to rebuild JS after any file changes, deduped to every second
sents "**/*.js" -c "rollup" -d 1000

Notes

• This doesn't support polling, so don't use it on network filesystems, but you shouldn't really be doing interactive dev work from there anyway

• You can't exclude files from this right now, so it might watch your whole node_modules folder

Dependencies

All of these dependencies have zero further dependencies. Therefore, using this package will add at most three dependencies to your project.

• mri: for parsing arguments
• picomatch: for supporting glob syntax
• sents: the underlying watcher library