Project Name	Stars	Repos Using This	Packages Using This	Most Recent Commit	Total Releases	Latest Release	Open Issues	License	Language
Chokidar	10,148	624,486	17,167	7 months ago	104	January 18, 2022	121	mit	JavaScript
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
Watcher	1,414	76	378	6 months ago	6	August 17, 2019	48	bsd-3-clause	Go
watcher is a Go package for watching for files or directory changes without using filesystem events.
Watcher	201	73	9	2 years ago	32	November 25, 2020	44	mit	C++
Atom Filesystem Watcher
Autotest Fsevent	124	892	308	4 months ago	23	December 26, 2021		mit	Ruby
Use FSEvent (Mac OS X 10.5 or higher) instead of filesystem polling.
Xnotify	43			2 years ago	6	October 05, 2022	1	mit	Go
Cross platform file notification with built-in task execution and a client/server feature to overcome virtual folders without relying on polling.
Pollex	26			7 months ago	11	July 17, 2023		mit	TypeScript
A tiny polling-based filesystem watcher that tries to be efficient.
Vigilo	25			13 years ago					Ruby
A lightweight, simple API for watching the file system
Eclipsejava7refresher	18			10 years ago			1	gpl-2.0	Java
An Eclipse plugin that uses new features in Java 7 to automatically refresh files in your workspace
Autotest Inotify	18			13 years ago			8	mit	Ruby
Teaches autotest to use inotify (on Linux) instead of filesystem polling.
Fstrigger Plugin	10	2		a year ago	40	May 09, 2014	6		Java

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