How to install Watchman on Windows (win10)?

Question

I am trying to install Watchman to my computer for npm for React Native. I opened the docs http://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html and can't understand how it should be done.

Could you please explain me more detailed?

Answer 1

1. Load watchman archive by this instruction https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install#binary-downloads-for-linux-macos-and-windows-beta
2. Create folder watchman in c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local
3. Extract watchman archive to watchman folder. You must get c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\watchman\watchman.exe
4. Open path environment in
   • click on luppa (find) and insert settings: Edit the system environment variables -> Environment variables
   • OR System -> System Info -> Advance system settings -> Advance (tab) -> Environment variables
5. Set add to enviroment path c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\watchman
6. Re login in you system or reboot PC
7. Open terminal and run command watchman -v and you must see version

Answer 2

For those using Chocolatey (this is not published on the website yet, but found the info in the github repo):

Watchman is available to install via the Chocolatey Windows package manager. Installation is as simple as:

PS C:\> choco install watchman 

Reference: https://github.com/facebook/watchman/blob/573b18b86b88759f31e83fa2e1837539d138de22/website/_docs/install.markdown#installing-on-windows-via-chocolatey

Beware that installing Chocolatey itself is somewhat tedious, but here is the link if you'd like to give it a go: https://chocolatey.org/courses/installation