Though I try to avoid external dependencies where they do not solve a complex sub-task better than I could, https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar could help handling the ReadOnly aspect better cross-platform. Especially on mac I have no actual idea how this behaves.
Drawbacks:
- another dependency (though chokidar 3 stripped most of it's own dependencies, so that's good)
- does much more than what is actually needed by this project - we only need to watch a specific folder consistently for file changes and renames
- not sure how it handles creating lots of watchers internally
Benefits:
- better support of change/rename events across platforms
- deduplication of events
- battle tested in a lot of big production projects
Though I try to avoid external dependencies where they do not solve a complex sub-task better than I could, https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar could help handling the ReadOnly aspect better cross-platform. Especially on mac I have no actual idea how this behaves.
Drawbacks:
Benefits: