Watching file changes with NPM Scripts

It looks like a good idea and most certainly good cause to keep down the number of dependencies. I think there might be 2 main problems with this approach: 1) The fs.watch documentation points out an inconsistent behaviors and warns that it doesn't work in Linux: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/fs.html#fs_caveats 2) The input filename parameter is a string, but not a blob, so this has to be defined very precisely.

Both good callouts. A shame that the linux implementation lacks parity. Regarding the blob issue, you can work around it by watching a directory and then filtering the changed files with a regex, but at some point workarounds aren't worth it. Thanks for reading!