how to ignore node_modules using the cli API?

[vvo]

Let's say I want to rewrite all the JavaScript files in my project BUT the node_modules, how to do that?

[vvo]

something like this:

esformatter '!(node_modules|build|dist){,/**/}*.js'

(rough!)

[vvo]

@millermedeiros this is not the best option since it emits an error when you do not have any subdirectory.. Maybe you have a better idea?

[vvo]

So that's because when you give a pattern to glob that results in no matches, you get back a similar pattern. Switching to non sync glob should solve the issue, but that's some work

[millermedeiros]

yes, we need a better way to do this and also to add it to the docs.

the error I did on purpose because I assumed it was better to display that it couldn't find any files with the glob than to fail silently.. (specially for cases like esformatter 'wrong_path.js') but maybe we should change this behavior and/or add a flag to toggle it.

[millermedeiros]

I think we should probably add an --ignore-dir argument to the CLI.. so we can do:

esformatter --ignore-dir=node_modules --ignore-dir=build --ignore-dir=dist  './**/*.js'

and maybe ignore node_modules by default (if we ignore it by default we should add a --noignore-dir argument as well)

[millermedeiros]

sorry for the huuuuuuge delay, but in the next version (v0.10.0) we will be able to specify complex ignore rules like:

esformatter --diff --ignore 'node_modules/**' --ignore 'test/compare/**/*-in.js' --ignore 'test/compare/{jquery,custom,rc,error}/**/*.js' '**/*.js'

I'll probably do some follow up work on #449 to support .eslintignore, .gitignore, etc...