Package
watchpack
Wrapper library for directory and file watching.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 43.2m
- +56% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 1
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 3 months ago
- v2.5.2
- GitHub stars
- 400
- 111 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 6 / 8
- Contributors
- 39
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 80
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
43,226,186 downloads last week, 203,273,072 in the last month. The 12-month change of +56% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 345 in total
- Latest version
- 2.5.2, 11 Jun 20263 months ago
- First published
- 9 Oct 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 24 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 6
- Open pull requests
- 8
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 80
- Dependents on npm
- 980
Major versions
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 17 Sept 2020
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 9 Feb 2016
- v0 first release 0.1.0, 9 Oct 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 2.5.2 | 11 Jun 2026 |
| 2.5.1 | 15 Jan 2026 |
| 2.5.0 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 2.4.4 | 21 May 2025 |
| 2.4.3 | 19 May 2025 |
| 2.4.2 | 13 Aug 2024 |
| 2.4.1 | 13 Mar 2024 |
| 2.4.0 | 2 Jun 2022 |
| 2.3.1 | 6 Dec 2021 |
| 2.3.0 | 24 Nov 2021 |
| 2.2.0 | 19 May 2021 |
| 2.1.1 | 7 Feb 2021 |
| 2.1.0 | 8 Dec 2020 |
| 1.7.5 | 10 Nov 2020 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=10.13.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 106 kB
- Dependencies (1)
graceful-fs
npm install watchpack- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/watchpack@2.5.2/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/watchpack@2.5.2/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/watchpack@2.5.2
Indexability: Indexed.