chokidar macos ready issue - https://github.com/paulmillr/chokidar/issues/873

debug.js

const path = require('path');

const chokidar = require('chokidar');

const root = path.resolve('.');

const watcher = chokidar.watch('.', {
  cwd: root,
  ignored: [
    /(^|[/\\])\../, // Dotfiles
    'node_modules',
    '**/*.map'
  ]
});

watcher.on('add', f => console.log('add', f));
watcher.on('ready', () => console.log('ready'));

package.json

{
  "name": "gist",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "chokidar": "^3.0.2",
    "electron": "^4.2.8"
  }
}

spawn.js

const { spawn } = require('child_process');

spawn('node', ['debug.js'], { stdio: 'inherit' });
spawn('npx', ['electron', '--version'], { stdio: 'inherit' });