Package
watcher
The file system watcher that strives for perfection, with no native dependencies and optional rename detection support.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 11.7k
- -41% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 3
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 2 years ago
- v2.3.1
- GitHub stars
- 140
- 19 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 13 / 2
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 2
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
11,680 downloads last week, 66,890 in the last month. The 12-month change of -41% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- -
- Latest version
- 2.3.1, 6 Apr 20242 years ago
- First published
- -
- Last push to GitHub
- 17 Jul 202669 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 13
- Open pull requests
- 2
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 2
- Dependents on npm
- 69
Major versions
-
Recent releases
-
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 232 kB
- Dependencies (3)
dettlestubborn-fstiny-readdir
npm install watcher- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/watcher@2.3.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/watcher@2.3.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/watcher@2.3.1
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chokidar | 160.9m | - | 9 months ago | ESM only | - |
| @jsonjoy.com/fs-core | 7.8m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | - |
| @jsonjoy.com/fs-node-to-fsa | 7.8m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | - |
| @jsonjoy.com/fs-node | 7.8m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | - |
| @jsonjoy.com/fs-node-builtins | 7.8m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | - |
| @jsonjoy.com/fs-node-utils | 7.8m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | - |
| @jsonjoy.com/fs-print | 7.8m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | - |
| @jsonjoy.com/fs-fsa | 7.8m | - | 2 days ago | CommonJS | - |
Indexability: Indexed.