Guard alternatives
Here's a list of known "alternatives" to Guard.
The order should be: how generally feature-complete the tool is compared to Guard.
(NOTE: if you "don't like Guard" for any reason - please open an issue so we have a chance to make things better).
Feel free to add/update entries and notes/caveats/differences.
- watchman - client/server arch
- gulp
- gamin
- belvedere - Windows only, seems ancient
- watch-4-folder - Windows only, seems ancient
- rerun - written in Ruby, uses the same Listen library as Guard
- when-changed - written in Python
- incron - Linux only, root only
- inoticoming - watches dirs
- watchfile
- when_changed - Windows only
- java-file-change-watcher
- watchexec - written in Rust
- inotifywait
- wait_on - for BSD
- sleep_until_modified.py
- sleep_until_modified.sh
- kqwait - for OSX
- launchd - although it only watches for path changes, not content changes
- pyinotify
- unison
- jnotify
- file.monitor
- pyfilesystem
This wiki and the Guard README document contain a lot of information, please take your time and read these instructions carefully.
If you run into any trouble, you may start by understanding how Guard works.
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