Get a ready event

[amasad]

Is it possible to get a ready event from chokidar after it does the first pass at watching files? I'm currently doing the following:

function getReadyEvent(watcher, callback) {
  var t;
  function done() {
    watcher.removeListener('add', handler);
    callback();
  }
  function handler() {
    clearTimeout(t);
    t = setTimeout(done, DELAY);
  }
  handler();
  watcher.on('add', handler);
}

[paulmillr]

What is your use case?

[amasad]

I have a directory with a shit ton of files that I want watched (takes around 30-60s to finish) and then tell the user that the program has started and ready to detect changes on files. If I don't do that then the user will start editing the files and think the program is hanging.

[flosse]

@paulmillr would you please merge the fix by @amasad ?

[amasad]

@flosse I ended up writing a library to get this features and some other stuff: Sane It's currently in use by ember, component.io and facebook.

[flosse]

@amasad awesome! Thanks!