parcel-bundler/watcher

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👀 A native C++ Node module for querying and subscribing to filesystem events

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Forks: 69
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 67

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jul 20, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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67 open issues indexed

Linux: exiting a Worker with active subscriptions unloads watcher.node while the inotify thread is still running (2.6.0) Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#264 · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Windows: use-after-free — unsubscribe() destroys Subscription while a ReadDirectoryChangesW completion APC is still pending Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#262 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Data race on the global shared-backend registry between subscribe and unsubscribe Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#259 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Crash at exit: DirTreeDeleter uses dirTreeCache after static destruction (same as #206, still in 2.5.1) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#258 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Possible `CallbackData` leak when watcher callbacks cannot be queued Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#255 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
`@parcel/watcher` does not retry on `EINTR`, causing processes to hang indefinitely in Docker Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#253 · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 26, 2026
npm RFC #868 will block this package's install script by default Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#251 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 1, 2026
Stack overflow crash (STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN 0xC0000409 / SIGSEGV) in std::regex_match on long paths when using a glob ignore option Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#250 · Opened May 29, 2026
Support Linux s390x (@parcel/watcher-linux-s390x-glibc) or provide a fallback for unsupported architectures Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#247 · Opened May 4, 2026
Performance: std::regex with picomatch-generated patterns causes 10-17x slowdown on large repos Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#244 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 28, 2026
Inotify backend: missing file events when created inside a new directory Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#243 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Does not work when iDP card printer driver is installed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#242 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 15, 2026
Installing watcher module in fresh repository fails with SIGKILL Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#241 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
DirTree cache doesn't account for ignore patterns (Linux) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#240 · Opened Feb 6, 2026
PPC64LE Support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#239 · Opened Feb 4, 2026
File watching fails on network-mounted paths (Linux) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#230 · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 13, 2026
Unable to import in GitHub actions with Node v22, v24 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#218 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 1, 2025
Can't resolve './build/Debug/watcher.node' in '/.../myApp/node_modules/@parcel/watcher' Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#215 · Opened Sep 18, 2025
@parcel/watcher writeSnapShot and getEventsSince erroneous coding in Windows 11 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#211 · Opened Aug 18, 2025
No prebuild or local build of @parcel/watcher found Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#204 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2025
@parcel/watcher on FreeBSD ARM? (No prebuild or local build of @parcel/watcher found.) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#201 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2025
Event "create" file not work, docker node:20.11-alpine3.19 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#199 · Opened Feb 22, 2025
Bug: File update consistently triggers 2 update events on Windows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#193 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 15, 2024
macOS: Error starting FSEvents stream with many folders Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#190 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2024
Undo from finder/explorer does not report file events Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#185 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 28, 2024
Watcher.subscribe might miss some of many fast subsequent changes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#183 · 5 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Aug 9, 2024
Error building parcel watcher on m1 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#182 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 7, 2024
Prebuilt win32 npm package `@parcel/watcher-win32-ia32` not working with electron-builder Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#181 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 27, 2024
contributing guide / pkg.pr.new support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#179 · Opened Jun 17, 2024
Negated entries provided to "ignore" option are making the watcher not detecting any changes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#174 · Opened May 27, 2024
Document how symlinks are handled Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#173 · 7 reactions · Opened May 21, 2024
verifying what backend is being used by watcher Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#172 · 9 comments · 5 reactions · Opened May 10, 2024
FSEvents behaves differently compared to inotify with glob excludes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#171 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2024
With Watchman installed on Windows subscribe hangs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#168 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 24, 2024
node-addon-api should be a dev dependency? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#167 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 19, 2024
Support for negated Ignores Globs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#166 · 4 reactions · Opened Feb 7, 2024
when moving folder to a watched folder , only event for the moved folder is generated and not for files inside the folder Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#165 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 5, 2024
Change event is not emitted on Windows when continuously appending to an initially existing file Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#164 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2024
AWS Amplify build error Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#160 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 15, 2023
InotifyBackend hungs forever when inotify_init1 returns error Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#159 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Oct 16, 2023
When using Watchman on Windows, a console window pops up when subscribing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#155 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2023
Specifying path to `watchman` executable Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#154 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2023
v2.2.0 node-gyp rebuild error, incorrect scripts in npm registry Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#153 · 11 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Aug 16, 2023
Error: No prebuild or local build of @parcel/watcher found. Tried @parcel/watcher-linux-arm64-musl. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#152 · 20 comments · 20 reactions · Opened Aug 11, 2023
Watcher not reporting events when used in docker. Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#148 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 16, 2023
Second install fails if install with pnpm and node-linker=hoisted Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#142 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 22, 2023
Crash when running in alpine podman container Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#141 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 30, 2023
readme backend uses unclear Open

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parcel-bundler/watcher#136 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 23, 2023
Possible deadlocks with overlapping subscriptions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#135 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 19, 2023
Error: Unable to remove watcher: Invalid argument Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

parcel-bundler/watcher#129 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 20, 2023

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