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watchexec-bin

An npm package to install a watchexec prebuilt binary

Installation

npm install watchexec-bin

As this package makes use of install npm script in order to download a binary for the current platform, ignore-scripts npm-config cannot be enabled while executing the command above.

API

`require('watchexec-bin')`

Type: string

An absolute path to the installed watchexec binary, which can be used with child_process functions.

const {spawn} = require('child_process');
const watchexec = require('watchexec');

spawn(watchexec, ['--', 'ls', '-la']);

CLI

Once this package is installed to the project directory, users can execute watchexec command inside npm scripts of the project.

"watch-js": "watchexec --ext js eslint ."

$ npm run-script watch-js

License

watchexec

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watchexec-bin's Issues

Failed install on ubuntu/macos node 16 (CI)

https://github.com/unlight/github-actions-playground/runs/4607193447?check_suite_focus=true

Run npm install
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /home/runner/work/github-actions-playground/github-actions-playground/node_modules/watchexec-bin
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c node install.js
npm ERR! Error: Failed to load "request" module from the current working directory (/home/runner/work/github-actions-playground/github-actions-playground/node_modules/watchexec-bin). Then tried to load "request" from the npm CLI directory (/opt/hostedtoolcache/node/16.13.1/x64/lib/node_modules/npm), but it also failed. Install "request" and try again. (`npm install request`)
npm ERR!     at loadFromCwdOrNpm (/home/runner/work/github-actions-playground/github-actions-playground/node_modules/load-from-cwd-or-npm/index.js:85:18)
npm ERR!     at async Promise.all (index 0)
npm ERR!     at async /home/runner/work/github-actions-playground/github-actions-playground/node_modules/watchexec-bin/install.js:52:31

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/runner/.npm/_logs/2021-12-22T13_14_07_986Z-debug.log
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.