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Support symlinks #3

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fabiospampinato opened this issue Mar 2, 2021 · 2 comments
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Support symlinks #3

fabiospampinato opened this issue Mar 2, 2021 · 2 comments
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Support both watching symlinks themselves and following them.
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gajus commented Mar 20, 2023

Would love to add watcher to https://github.com/gajus/turbowatch if it supported symlinks.

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benmccann commented May 16, 2024 •
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chokidar has a followSymLinks option. Their initial implementation was pretty simple: paulmillr/chokidar@284148b

It looks like this is the current implementation, which is about the same level of complexity if this is all of it:
https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/blob/7c50e25d10a497ce4409f6e52eb630f0d7647b97/lib/nodefs-handler.js#L414

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