https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
chokidar filesystem fsevents nodejs watch-files watcher
Score: 37.25271976048097
Last synced: about 22 hours ago
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Repository metadata:
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Owner: paulmillr
- License: mit
- Created: 2012-04-20T19:17:49.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2026-08-16T15:34:26.000Z (about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-15T00:49:45.905Z (1 day ago)
- Topics: chokidar, filesystem, fsevents, nodejs, watch-files, watcher
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage: https://paulmillr.com
- Size: 1.97 MB
- Stars: 12,235
- Watchers: 85
- Forks: 635
- Open Issues: 48
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Funding: .github/funding.yml
- License: LICENSE
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Funding:
- Github: paulmillr
Owner metadata:
- Name: Paul Miller
- Login: paulmillr
- Email:
- Kind: user
- Description:
- Website: https://paulmillr.com
- Location:
- Twitter: paulmillr
- Company:
- Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/574696?u=f01dfd93a3e3e4c853c546a6f71dda6b65019ba7&v=4
- Repositories: 108
- Last Synced at: 2024-04-14T08:26:51.385Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/paulmillr
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 19
- Delete event: 16
- Fork event: 38
- Issue comment event: 204
- Issues event: 47
- Pull request event: 47
- Pull request review comment event: 11
- Pull request review event: 11
- Push event: 79
- Release event: 1
- Watch event: 750
- Total: 1223
Last Year
- Create event: 5
- Delete event: 3
- Fork event: 5
- Issue comment event: 15
- Issues event: 3
- Pull request event: 4
- Pull request review comment event: 1
- Push event: 23
- Watch event: 156
- Total: 215
Committers metadata
Last synced: 2 days ago
Total Commits: 1,554
Total Committers: 122
Avg Commits per committer: 12.738
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.525
Commits in past year: 13
Committers in past year: 4
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 3.25
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.538
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| Elan Shanker | e****r@g****m | 738 |
| Paul Miller | p****l@p****m | 478 |
| James Garbutt | 4****j | 56 |
| XhmikosR | x****r@g****m | 30 |
| Bruno Michel | b****l@m****o | 20 |
| Leo Baschy | s****2@n****m | 14 |
| dependabot-preview[bot] | 2****] | 13 |
| Artem Kobzar | d****0@g****m | 11 |
| dbashford | d****d@b****m | 7 |
| Blaine Bublitz | b****z@g****m | 7 |
| Jannik Rebmann | j****n@i****e | 6 |
| Alan Agius | a****4@g****m | 6 |
| ehmicky | e****y@g****m | 5 |
| Théotime Loiseau | t****u@g****m | 5 |
| Alex Puschinsky | a****o@g****m | 5 |
| jimrobs | j****y@j****m | 5 |
| Andrew Shaffer | a****w@w****o | 4 |
| MajorBreakfast | m****l@j****e | 4 |
| Ben McCann | 3****n | 3 |
| Erez Arnon | e****n@y****m | 3 |
| Tim Neutkens | t****s@m****m | 3 |
| isaacs | i****@i****e | 3 |
| markablov | m****v@g****m | 3 |
| vdiez | d****z@o****m | 3 |
| Jean Ponchon | j****n@n****m | 3 |
| Aggelos Karalias | a****s@g****m | 3 |
| Friedel Ziegelmayer | f****r@i****e | 3 |
| v1rtl | h****i@v****e | 2 |
| Sindre Sorhus | s****s@g****m | 2 |
| Shane Osbourne | s****8@g****m | 2 |
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Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: about 23 hours ago
Total issues: 253
Total pull requests: 167
Average time to close issues: almost 2 years
Average time to close pull requests: 5 months
Total issue authors: 218
Total pull request authors: 60
Average comments per issue: 3.2
Average comments per pull request: 2.36
Merged pull request: 62
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 12
Past year issues: 15
Past year pull requests: 23
Past year average time to close issues: 8 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: about 1 month
Past year issue authors: 14
Past year pull request authors: 14
Past year average comments per issue: 1.8
Past year average comments per pull request: 2.7
Past year merged pull request: 3
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
- paulmillr (12)
- george-thomas-hill (5)
- ghost (4)
- fabiospampinato (3)
- bpasero (3)
- tgrajewski (3)
- benmccann (2)
- afeibigbear (2)
- valadaptive (2)
- ChristofferKarlsson (2)
- ChocolateLoverRaj (2)
- 43081j (2)
- inga-lovinde (2)
- rottmann (2)
- dignifiedquire (2)
Top Pull Request Authors
- 43081j (51)
- dependabot[bot] (12)
- paulmillr (8)
- Sjenica1 (6)
- benmccann (5)
- TobyEalden (4)
- btea (4)
- talentlessguy (3)
- dave-addition (2)
- dividedmind (2)
- ah-naf (2)
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- tagattie (2)
- Fuzzyma (2)
Top Issue Labels
- has test case (29)
- mac (27)
- linux (26)
- win32 (25)
- stale (19)
- performance (11)
- network (8)
- dependencies (1)
Top Pull Request Labels
- dependencies (12)
Package metadata
- Total packages: 25
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Total downloads:
- npm: 793,126,502 last-month
- Total docker downloads: 9,274,697,505
- Total dependent packages: 17,793 (may contain duplicates)
- Total dependent repositories: 1,116,437 (may contain duplicates)
- Total versions: 193
- Total maintainers: 22
debian-12: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/node-chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.5.3-2 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T09:27:12.017Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
-
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 0.196%
- Stargazers count: 0.233%
- Forks count: 0.553%
npmjs.org: chokidar
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 5.0.0 (published 10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T04:34:15.006Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 109
- Dependent Packages: 17,735
- Dependent Repositories: 1,116,315
- Downloads: 793,120,400 Last month
- Docker Downloads: 9,272,521,378
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Rankings:
- Downloads: 0.005%
- Dependent packages count: 0.006%
- Docker downloads count: 0.009%
- Dependent repos count: 0.031%
- Average: 0.429%
- Stargazers count: 1.018%
- Forks count: 1.505%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://paulmillr.com/funding/
npmjs.org: @teambit/chokidar
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 3.5.6 (published about 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T04:10:41.269Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 2
- Dependent Packages: 3
- Dependent Repositories: 1
- Downloads: 2,856 Last month
- Docker Downloads: 1,348,728
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Rankings:
- Docker downloads count: 0.436%
- Stargazers count: 1.01%
- Forks count: 1.502%
- Average: 4.063%
- Downloads: 5.244%
- Dependent packages count: 5.888%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Maintainers (10)
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Funding:
- url: https://paulmillr.com/funding/: type: individual
- url: https://github.com/sponsors/paulmillr: type: github
npmjs.org: vscode-chokidar
A neat wrapper around node.js fs.watch / fs.watchFile / fsevents.
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 2.1.7 (published about 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T04:04:07.138Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 7
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 115
- Downloads: 2,981 Last month
- Docker Downloads: 78
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.007%
- Docker downloads count: 1.242%
- Dependent repos count: 1.353%
- Forks count: 1.5%
- Downloads: 4.173%
- Average: 5.03%
- Dependent packages count: 20.908%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: @danielkalen/chokidar
A fork of chokidar with the added option to allow specific files of ignored dirs to bypass ignore
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 1.7.0 (published almost 10 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T08:25:47.095Z (1 day ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 3
- Dependent Repositories: 4
- Downloads: 37 Last month
- Docker Downloads: 827,321
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Rankings:
- Docker downloads count: 0.439%
- Stargazers count: 1.01%
- Forks count: 1.502%
- Average: 5.079%
- Dependent repos count: 5.561%
- Dependent packages count: 5.888%
- Downloads: 16.073%
- Maintainers (1)
repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.npm:chokidar
WebJar for chokidar
- Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
- Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.npm/chokidar/
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 5.0.0 (published 4 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:40:02.861Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 26
- Dependent Packages: 44
- Dependent Repositories: 0
-
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 1.493%
- Stargazers count: 2.426%
- Forks count: 5.818%
- Average: 10.429%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%
npmjs.org: @vilic/chokidar
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 3.5.3 (published over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T04:04:07.016Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 16 Last month
-
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 0.977%
- Forks count: 1.424%
- Average: 11.973%
- Dependent repos count: 18.957%
- Dependent packages count: 26.535%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- type: individual: url: https://paulmillr.com/funding/
npmjs.org: @jayxuz/chokidar
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Status: removed
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 1.0.0 (published over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:51:35.701Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
-
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.271%
- Forks count: 1.783%
- Average: 12.784%
- Dependent packages count: 21.874%
- Dependent repos count: 26.21%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: @amory/chokidar
A neat wrapper around node.js fs.watch / fs.watchFile / fsevents.
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 2.0.4 (published about 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:37:46.236Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 2
- Dependent Packages: 4
- Dependent Repositories: 1
- Downloads: 26 Last month
-
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.007%
- Forks count: 1.5%
- Dependent packages count: 5.888%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Average: 13.109%
- Downloads: 46.854%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: @jaen/chokidar
PATCHED - Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Status: removed
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 3.5.2 (published almost 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T04:12:21.554Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 3 Last month
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.241%
- Forks count: 1.773%
- Dependent packages count: 16.224%
- Average: 16.363%
- Dependent repos count: 25.328%
- Downloads: 37.249%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: cross-platform-file-watch
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 3.5.2 (published almost 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:50:52.540Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 16 Last month
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.242%
- Forks count: 1.773%
- Dependent packages count: 16.224%
- Average: 19.158%
- Dependent repos count: 25.328%
- Downloads: 51.222%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: @itper/chokidar
A neat wrapper around node.js fs.watch / fs.watchFile / fsevents.
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 2.1.2 (published over 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:36:42.526Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 1
- Dependent Repositories: 1
- Downloads: 20 Last month
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.007%
- Forks count: 1.5%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Average: 20.172%
- Dependent packages count: 20.908%
- Downloads: 67.148%
- Maintainers (1)
npmjs.org: @depup/chokidar
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library (with updated dependencies)
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 5.0.0-depup.1 (published about 1 month ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:43:46.830Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 2
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 25 Last month
-
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 22.409%
- Average: 27.355%
- Dependent packages count: 32.302%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://paulmillr.com/funding/
npmjs.org: chokidar-capacitor
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library. This version contains a fix for capacitor.
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 3.5.5 (published almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T05:15:01.338Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 110 Last month
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Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 1.045%
- Forks count: 1.549%
- Average: 27.851%
- Dependent repos count: 37.326%
- Downloads: 46.027%
- Dependent packages count: 53.306%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- type: individual: url: https://paulmillr.com/funding/
- type: github: url: https://github.com/sponsors/paulmillr
npmjs.org: @hydroperx/chokidar
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 1.0.0 (published 9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:44:59.704Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
- Downloads: 12 Last month
-
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 23.279%
- Average: 28.427%
- Dependent packages count: 33.574%
- Maintainers (1)
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Funding:
- https://paulmillr.com/funding/
repo1.maven.org: org.mvnpm:chokidar
Minimal and efficient cross-platform file watching library
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.mvnpm/chokidar/
- Licenses: MIT
- Latest release: 5.0.0 (published 10 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-09-14T03:35:55.265Z (2 days ago)
- Versions: 27
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
-
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 31.112%
- Average: 37.796%
- Dependent packages count: 44.48%
debian-11: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/node-chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.4.3-3 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-14T00:31:25.935Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-20.04: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.3.1-2 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T09:22:53.800Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-22.04: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.4.3-3 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-07T15:37:44.008Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.04: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.5.3-2 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-11T10:42:27.947Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-23.10: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.5.3-2 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-13T20:15:43.112Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-24.10: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.6.0-2 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-08-26T09:29:03.492Z (21 days ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
debian-13: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/node-chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.6.0-3 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-14T07:02:00.588Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
ubuntu-24.04: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 3.6.0-2 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-03-06T05:35:00.107Z (6 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
debian-10: node-chokidar
- Homepage: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar
- Documentation: https://packages.debian.org/buster/node-chokidar
- Licenses: mit
- Latest release: 1.7.0-3 (published 7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-07-28T10:45:06.528Z (about 2 months ago)
- Versions: 1
- Dependent Packages: 0
- Dependent Repositories: 0
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Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 0.0%
- Dependent packages count: 0.0%
- Average: 100%
Dependencies
- @types/node ^14 development
- chai ^4.3 development
- dtslint ^3.3.0 development
- eslint ^7.0.0 development
- mocha ^7.0.0 development
- rimraf ^3.0.0 development
- sinon ^9.0.1 development
- sinon-chai ^3.3.0 development
- typescript ^4.4.3 development
- upath ^1.2.0 development
- anymatch ~3.1.2
- braces ~3.0.2
- glob-parent ~5.1.2
- is-binary-path ~2.1.0
- is-glob ~4.0.1
- normalize-path ~3.0.0
- readdirp ~3.6.0
- 407 dependencies