Skip to content

chokidar 5.0.0

  • Make the package ESM-only. Reduces on-disk package size from ~150kb to ~80kb
  • Increase minimum node.js version to v20.19. The versions starting from it support loading esm files from cjs
  • fix: Make types more precise https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/pull/1424
  • perf: re-use double slash regex https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/pull/1435
  • Update readdirp to ESM-only v5
  • Lots of minor improvements in tests
  • Increase security of NPM releases. Switch to token-less Trusted Publishing, with help of jsbt
  • Switch compilation mode to isolatedDeclaration-based typescript for simplified auto-generated docs

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/compare/4.0.3...5.0.0