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add enhancements for file watcher (fs.watch) #37

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- fixes lukejacksonn#36
- fs.watch recursive option is only supported on macOS and Windows (see https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/fs.html#fs_caveats)
- add node-watch as a thin wrapper for fs.watch
- node-watch author claims it's much faster and more memory efficient than fs.watch
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lukejacksonn commented Jan 23, 2020

This is awesome stuff man. Thanks, I have written down some thoughts here #36 (comment) lmk what you think!

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Going to close this now in favour of #39 which has been merged!

@chiefjester chiefjester deleted the watchFix branch February 11, 2020 19:08
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Doesn't detect change in nested files (on Linux)
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