shama/gaze
:crystal_ball: A globbing fs.watch wrapper built from the best parts of other fine watch libs. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5082
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2610
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1150 stars · 164 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Gaze is a Node.js library that wraps fs.watch with glob pattern matching, emitting events for file changes, additions, and deletions. It unifies the best parts of other file-watching libraries into a single API compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Use cases
- watch javascript files for changes during development
- trigger build tasks when source files change
- monitor a directory for newly added files
- detect when files are deleted in a watched folder
- watch multiple glob patterns like css and images
- build a custom file-watching dev server
When to choose
- you need glob-based file watching in Node.js with a simple event API
- you want cross-platform file watching without writing fs.watch boilerplate
- you need to dynamically add watch patterns at runtime
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained library - the latest release was 2019 and newer alternatives like chokidar exist
- you need high-performance watching of very large file trees
- you are not using Node.js
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
developer-tools file-system developer-tools files cross-platform file-watching glob fs-watch nodejs-library automation nodejs
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/shama/gaze · fetched 2026-08-28 · 50ad1ea1a4ae
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/gaze · fetched 2026-08-29 · 2046d8fa54a4
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| shama/gaze | main | 32 |
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