Nodemon - exclusion of files

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Ben Aston picture Ben Aston · Jun 9, 2014 · Viewed 70.5k times · Source

I would like to exclude some specific files from monitoring of NodeMon. How can I do this?

My existing configuration:

nodemon: {
      all: {
        script: 'app.js',
        options: {
          watchedExtensions: ['js']
        }
      }

Answer

Rohit Jain picture Rohit Jain · Jun 9, 2014

In order to make NodeMon ignore a bunch of files from monitoring, you can start it as 

nodemon --ignore PATTERN [--ignore PATTERN2]

where PATTERN is the name of a specific file, directory, or wildcard pattern. Make sure that if you use a wildcard, it is escaped.

For example

nodemon --ignore 'lib/*.js' --ignore README

Alternatively, if you want to configure that behaviour instead, try creating a nodemon.json file in your current working directory, or your home directory. You can configure ignoring some files by adding something like the following to this config file:

{   
    "ignore": ["lib/*.js", "README"] 
}

Refer the README file at https://github.com/remy/nodemon for more details.

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