# Install babel-watch with npm

Reload your babel-node app on JS source file changes. And do it *fast*. Version 7.8.1 via npm; verified 2023-07-06.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:babel-watch
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g babel-watch
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:babel-watch
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/babel-watch>
- **Version:** 7.8.1
- **Source summary:** Reload your babel-node app on JS source file changes. And do it *fast*.
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/kmagiera/babel-watch#readme>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kmagiera/babel-watch>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/kmagiera/babel-watch#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/babel-watch/-/babel-watch-7.8.1.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/kmagiera/babel-watch/issues>
- **Published:** 2023-07-06T17:43:59.117Z
- **Last updated:** 2023-07-06T17:43:59.117Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- babel-watch (cli)
- babel-watch (alias)

## Dependencies

- chalk
- chokidar
- commander
- debug
- lodash.debounce
- lodash.isregexp
- lodash.isstring
- signal-exit
- source-map-support
- string-argv

## Build dependencies

- @babel/core
- eslint
- flow-bin
- prettier

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 7.8.1
- Package-manager updated: 2023-07-06
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/kmagiera/babel-watch
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for babel-watch. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 7.8.1
- **Version Count:** 27
- **Maintainers:** strml, kmag
- **Author:** Krzysztof Magiera
- **Publisher:** strml
- **Engines:** Node: >= 8
- **Peer Dependencies:** @babel/core
- **Integrity:** sha512-TnAlLAaorqMruh3BaTiXbbuv/b8iHqqvlljaWkCCJQLRsVFn7nUKO+38+DGxEaFvlj/IgIlQlx+DMirxSHiC4g==
- **Shasum:** 3be4016d61bfefae9522c116ef9ba209088e6498
- **Unpacked Size:** 36,448
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2016-02-03T23:24:14.167Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2023-07-06T17:43:59.117Z
- **Modified At:** 2023-07-06T17:43:59.324Z


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