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by kansface 4090 days ago
The problem with file watching in JS land isn't the libraries, its node. I'll point you at the documentation [1]. fs.watch is inconsistent, unreliable, unperformant on certain platforms, and a layer too low for most applications. For that matter, npm is worlds better than python which is why you don't tend to see crazy dependency graphs in python.

[1] https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_caveats