# Install watchify with npm

watch mode for browserify builds. Version 4.0.0 via npm; verified 2021-01-28.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:watchify
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g watchify
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:watchify
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/watchify>
- **Version:** 4.0.0
- **Source summary:** watch mode for browserify builds
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/browserify/watchify>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/browserify/watchify>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/browserify/watchify>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/watchify/-/watchify-4.0.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/browserify/watchify/issues>
- **Published:** 2021-01-28T18:50:27.488Z
- **Last updated:** 2021-01-28T18:50:27.488Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- watchify (cli)
- watchify (alias)

## Dependencies

- anymatch
- browserify
- chokidar
- defined
- outpipe
- through2
- xtend

## Build dependencies

- brfs
- mkdirp
- split
- tape
- uglify-js
- win-spawn

## Install behavior

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

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 4.0.0
- Package-manager updated: 2021-01-28
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/browserify/watchify
- 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 watchify. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 4.0.0
- **Version Count:** 70
- **Maintainers:** feross, gkatsev, zertosh, mafintosh, maxogden, thlorenz, terinjokes, jmm, mellowmelon, ashaffer88, balupton, cwmma
- **Author:** James Halliday
- **Publisher:** goto-bus-stop
- **Engines:** Node: >= 8.10.0
- **Integrity:** sha512-2Z04dxwoOeNxa11qzWumBTgSAohTC0+ScuY7XMenPnH+W2lhTcpEOJP4g2EIG/SWeLadPk47x++Yh+8BqPM/lA==
- **Shasum:** 53b002d51e7b0eb640b851bb4de517a689973392
- **Unpacked Size:** 53,730
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-05-30T08:56:01.822Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2021-01-28T18:50:27.488Z
- **Modified At:** 2023-05-16T18:48:08.417Z


## Related links

- [Developer build packages](https://pkg.so/developer-build-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [deps-sort](https://pkg.so/npm/deps-sort/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: browser, browserify, build, build-tools, cli.
- [derequire](https://pkg.so/npm/derequire/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: browserify, build, build-tools, cli, developer.
- [scss-bundle](https://pkg.so/npm/scss-bundle/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: build, build-tools, bundle, chokidar, cli.

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