A simple cross platform leveldb backed file system watcher.
Watches the file system recursively, stores a snapshot in leveldb, compares and emits changes in the form of new-line-delimited json. Also emits events for changes made since the process was last run.
Used as a user command.
fsch <path/to/watch> <regex-pattern> [path/to/cache]Used as a library.
const changes = require('fs-changes')
const opts = {
pattern: /\.txt$/,
dir: './files',
cache: '.cache'
}
changes(opts, events => { // returns `events` after doing initial diff
events.on('added', path => console.log({ path, type: 'added' }))
events.on('modified', path => console.log({ path, type: 'modified' }))
events.on('removed', path => console.log({ path, type: 'removed' }))
}) // returns an instance of levelup