node-inotifyr

Because file watching is hard.

Installation

$ npm install inotifyr

Usage

var Inotifyr = require('inotifyr');
 
var watcher = new Inotifyr('path/to/watch');
watcher.on('create', function (filename, stats) {
  console.log('Added %s: %s', stats.isDir ? 'dir' : 'file', filename);
});

API

Inotifyr(dir[, options])

Options

An object with the following properties

• events: (String | Array) Default: ['create', 'modify', 'delete', 'move'] A list of the events below to watch for.
• recursive: (Boolean) Default: false Should sub directories be watched?
• onlydir: (Boolean) Default: false Only watch the path if it is a directory.
• dont_follow: (Boolean) Default: false Do not follow symbolics links
• oneshot: (Boolean) Default: false Only send events once

Available Events

• access: File was accessed (read)
• attrib: Metadata changed, e.g., permissions, timestamps, extended attributes, link count (since Linux 2.6.25), UID, GID, etc.
• close_write: File opened for writing was closed
• close_nowrite: File not opened for writing was closed
• create: File/directory created in the watched directory
• delete: File/directory deleted from the watched directory
• delete_self: Watched file/directory was deleted
• modify: File was modified
• move_self: Watched file/directory was moved
• move_from: File moved out of the watched directory
• move_to: File moved into watched directory
• open: File was opened
• all: Watch for all kind of events
• close: (close_write | close_nowrite) Close
• move: (move_to | move_from) Moves

Development

Executing the tests

$ npm test

Running jshint

$ npm run hint