@parcel/watcher
Native file watcher for Node.js, used by Parcel, Nx and many dev servers.
Dev workflow and config npm MIT
How @parcel/watcher is used
@parcel/watcher joined the catalog on its public numbers (23,280,589 downloads a week on npm and 843 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 17 public GitHub projects of our scan, 7 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Playwright (JavaScript) (94.1%), Husky (82.4%), xterm.js Headless (70.6%).
@parcel/watcher popularity over time
Gid Score 50: downloads 93, use in agent projects 25, GitHub stars 9, downloads trend 61 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with @parcel/watcher
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 94.1% of @parcel/watcher projects · 5.5× more than average |
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| Husky | 82.4% of @parcel/watcher projects · 8.1× more than average |
| xterm.js Headless | 70.6% of @parcel/watcher projects · 1095.5× more than average |
| minimatch | 70.6% of @parcel/watcher projects · 151.1× more than average |
| glob | 64.7% of @parcel/watcher projects · 33.2× more than average |
| node-pty | 64.7% of @parcel/watcher projects · 133.9× more than average |
| rimraf | 64.7% of @parcel/watcher projects · 25.4× more than average |
| Anthropic SDK | 58.8% of @parcel/watcher projects · 15.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list @parcel/watcher as a dependency.
How @parcel/watcher is funded
Open Collective: Parcel
| Received, last 12 months | $5,324 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
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| Estimated annual budget | $6,522 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $56,675 |
| Raised since the start | $93,167 · $36,492 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $211 · $594 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -30% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 48 |
Top company backers all time, 126 companies in total
| Vercel | $44,500 since Jan 2019 |
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| Frontend Masters | $6,640 since Jul 2019 |
| Handsontable - JavaScript Data Grid | $3,200 since Jun 2022 |
| Principal Financial Group | $2,150 since Jul 2020 |
| Views4You | $1,800 since Apr 2025 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Dec 2017. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 2 more tools in our catalog: Lightning CSS, Parcel.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund @parcel/watcher
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in the npm package. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @parcel/watcher |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (15), Next.js (1), Python (1) |
| Example projects | microsoft/vscode, haystackeditor/haystack-editor, marigold-ui/marigold, jcommaret/kodia, Hive-Academy/ptah-extension |
Alternatives to @parcel/watcher
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Dev workflow and config does the same job as @parcel/watcher: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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