Notify

Cross-platform filesystem notification library for Rust.

• Notify Documentation
• Mini Debouncer Documentation
• Full Debouncer Documentation
• Examples
• Changelog
• Upgrading notify from v4
• Earliest supported Rust version: 1.60

As used by: alacritty, cargo watch, cobalt, docket, mdBook, rust-analyzer, watchexec, xi-editor, watchfiles, 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
• FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonflyBSD: kqueue
• All platforms: polling

License

Notify is licensed under the CC Zero 1.0.
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.