Strange behavior with fs.watch on file with JSON stringified -> first update isn't emitted if too fast after fs.watch #53111
Description
Node.js Version
v18.17.1
NPM Version
9.6.7
Operating System
23.2.0 Darwin
Subsystem
fs
Description
I would like to watch changes on a file storing JSON stringified data but the watcher created with fs.watch is not emitted if the change happen to quickly after the call of fs.watch. The strange thing is that if the content is only a text (without JSON format) the watcher emit the event correctly...
Minimal Reproduction
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const filePath = path.join(__dirname, 'test.json');
// Create the file if it doesn't exist
if (!fs.existsSync(filePath)) {
fs.writeFileSync(filePath, "{ }");
}
fs.watch(filePath, (eventType, filename) => {
console.log(`Event type is: ${eventType}`);
if (filename) {
console.log(`Filename provided: ${filename}`);
} else {
console.log('Filename not provided');
}
});
fs.writeFileSync(filePath, "{ \"test\": \"test\", \"test2\": \"test2\" }"); // same with JSON.stringify(...)
// Listener above is called if we replace line above with:
// fs.writeFileSync(filePath, "very ok or not but I need a longer text to test something...");Output
Expected
Event type is: change
Filename provided: test.json
Received
Nothing
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