File Watchers

Compatible with IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate, Community), Android Studio and 14 more

Allows you to automatically run a command-line tool like compilers, formatters, or linters when you change or save a file in the IDE.

Features

  • Predefined File Watcher templates for a number of popular third-party tools (compilers, compressors, prettifiers, etc.)
  • Custom File Watcher that can be configured to run other third-party tools
  • Option to auto-save edited files to trigger the watcher
  • Advanced configuration options

Getting started

For information on getting started, head over to the documentation for your IDE. For WebStorm, you can check out this section in the documentation.

What’s New

Unfortunately, JetBrains s.r.o. didn’t leave any update notes.
Feb 06, 2025
Version 251.20015.29

Rating & Reviews

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marcelbarlik

26.03.2024

Relatively useless plugin since it doesn't work as intended. This plugin will only realistically work for synchronized applications. The main point of trying it out for me, was to automatically rerun a server every time its code is edited in its relative package.

The major problem is that you cannot see the console, even when set to "Show console: Always". The execution has to finish to be able to see the console, and that is a bit stupid.

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Please add file watchers synchronisation for this plugin

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Eugene Briukov

06.06.2022

Hi. Do you plan to support this module in Gateway/Client? Have a need to compile SASS.

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Additional Information

Vendor:
Plugin ID:
com.intellij.plugins.watcher