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| 0.0.1 | Dec 20, 2014 |
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Notify
Cross-platform filesystem notification library for Rust.
- Notify Documentation
- Notify Types Documentation
- Mini Debouncer Documentation
- Full Debouncer Documentation
- File ID
- Examples
- Changelog
- Upgrading notify from v4
- Minimum supported Rust version: 1.77
As used by: alacritty, cargo watch, cobalt, deno, docket, mdBook, rust-analyzer, watchexec, watchfiles, xi-editor, and others.
(Looking for desktop notifications instead? Have a look at notify-rust or alert-after!)
Platforms
- Linux / Android: inotify
- macOS: FSEvents or kqueue, see features
- Windows: ReadDirectoryChangesW
- iOS / FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonflyBSD: kqueue
- All platforms: polling
License
notify is licensed under the CC Zero 1.0.
notify-types is licensed under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.
notify-debouncer-mini is licensed under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.
notify-debouncer-full is licensed under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.
file-id is licensed under the MIT or Apache-2.0 license.
Origins
Inspired by Go's fsnotify and Node.js's Chokidar, born out of need for cargo watch, and general frustration at the non-existence of C/Rust cross-platform notify libraries.
Originally created by Félix Saparelli and awesome contributors.
Dependencies
~0.1–11MB
~65K SLoC