This repository is to reproduce #1165 of paulmillr/chokidar.

Presumption

• macOS Big Sur (v11.6)
• Node.js (v16.3)
• chokidar (v3.5.2)

What’s Happening

If cwd option (or, names of ancestor directories) includes special characters of regular expression (e.g. parentheses),
chokidar can’t detect changes on files that it watches.

Steps to Reproduce

No Parentheses in CWD Option

1. Start to watch files

   cd no-paren-dir && node index.js
   

2. Edit and save files

3. You will see "Edited: <path>" messages in Terminal

Parentheses in CWD Option

1. Start to watch files

   cd "(paren-dir)" && node index.js
   

2. Edit and save files

3. You will NOT see "Edited: <path>" messages in Terminal

Root Cause

While paths of watched files are escaped (i.e. (watched-paren-dir)), cwd option isn’t so and is just treated as a string literal.

Notes

chokidar depends on micromatch/anymatch. anymatch can handle escaped string literals as shown in anymatch/index.js of this repository.

More accurately, anymatch internally depends on micromatch/picomatch so picomatch actually handles the escaped strings.