diff --git a/flatfilecms/__init__.py b/flatfilecms/__init__.py
index 358cdec..0f7a30d 100644
--- a/flatfilecms/__init__.py
+++ b/flatfilecms/__init__.py
@@ -1,58 +1,11 @@
-from pathlib import Path
-
 from pyramid.config import Configurator
-from pyramid.path import AssetResolver
-from watchdog.observers import Observer
-from watchdog.events import FileSystemEventHandler
 
-from flatfilecms.resources import Root, root_factory, roots
-
-
-class PagesEventHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):
-    def __init__(self, root_path):
-        super(PagesEventHandler, self).__init__()
-        self.root_path = root_path
-        self.abspath = AssetResolver().resolve(root_path).abspath()
-
-    def find_dir(self, path):
-        folder = roots.setdefault(self.root_path, Root(self.root_path))
-        path = path.relative_to(self.abspath)
-        for name in path.parts[:-1]:
-            folder = folder[name]
-        return folder
-
-    def on_created(self, event):
-        super(PagesEventHandler, self).on_created(event)
-        path = Path(
-            event.dest_path if hasattr(event, 'dest_path') else event.src_path)
-        folder = self.find_dir(path)
-        if event.is_directory:
-            folder.create_dir(path)
-        else:
-            folder.create_file(path)
-
-    def on_deleted(self, event):
-        super(PagesEventHandler, self).on_deleted(event)
-        path = Path(event.src_path)
-        folder = self.find_dir(path)
-        name = path.stem
-        if path.suffix not in ['.md', '.yaml', '.j2', '.jinja2'] \
-           and path.name != 'index.html':
-            name = path.name
-        del folder[name]
-
-    def on_moved(self, event):
-        super(PagesEventHandler, self).on_moved(event)
-        self.on_deleted(event)
-        self.on_created(event)
+from flatfilecms.resources import root_factory
 
 
 def main(global_config, **settings):
     """ This function returns a Pyramid WSGI application.
     """
-    from pyramid.settings import asbool
-    watchdog = asbool(settings.get('watchdog', 'false'))
-    settings['watchdog'] = watchdog
     settings.setdefault('pages_path', 'pages')
     settings.setdefault('data_path', 'data')
     default_jinja2_filters = """markdown = flatfilecms.filters:markdown2html
@@ -66,9 +19,4 @@ def main(global_config, **settings):
     config.include('pyramid_jinja2')
     config.include('.routes')
     config.scan()
-    if watchdog:
-        observer = Observer()
-        event_handler = PagesEventHandler(settings['pages_path'])
-        observer.schedule(event_handler, event_handler.abspath, recursive=True)
-        observer.start()
     return config.make_wsgi_app()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c655595..00466f4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ requires = [
     'Markdown',
     'PyYAML',
     'python-frontmatter',
-    'watchdog < 0.9.0',
     'pyramid-htmlmin',
     'pyramid-webpack',
     'Babel',