Can no longer pass a pattern into chokidar.watch #1423
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I've just upgraded my project to chokidar v4 from v3. Now I can't get it to work unless I remove the '/*.json' part. I've also tried this: |
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That is true. 4.x dropped support for globs. There's ongoing work elsewhere to at least document how you can use something like tinyglobby in combination with chokidar to get what you used to have. Though it isn't quite there yet |
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Has this been officially documented now? I have patterns such as Changing the existing glob patterns would break our plugin ecosystem. I feel like I'm stuck on Chokidar v3 forever with no upgrade path 😅. |
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Does it make sense? import chokidar from 'chokidar';
import picomatch from 'picomatch';
function watchGlob(pattern: string) {
const {base} = picomatch.scan(pattern); // 'docs/**/*.{md,mdx}' -> 'docs'
const isMatch = picomatch(pattern);
return chokidar.watch(base || '.').on('all', (event, path) => {
if (isMatch(path)) {
// Docusaurus handling
}
});
}
watchGlob('docs/**/*.{md,mdx}'); |
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it hasn't been documented, i'll dig into this next week 👍 |
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Thanks! Not really related but FYI node merged a x2 improvement to its native glob api: nodejs/node#65392 |
That is true.
4.x dropped support for globs.
There's ongoing work elsewhere to at least document how you can use something like tinyglobby in combination with chokidar to get what you used to have. Though it isn't quite there yet