ignore option is not working

[reiwa]

Am I misunderstanding how to use it? Or is this function at development stage?

$ micro-dev -i ./.idea

   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │                                                     │
   │   Micro is running!                                 │
   │                                                     │
   │   • Local:            http://localhost:3000         │
   │   • On Your Network:  http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3000   │
   │                                                     │
   │   Copied local address to clipboard!                │
   │                                                     │
   └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘


File changed: .idea/workspace.xml - Restarting server...
Restarted!

File changed: .idea/workspace.xml - Restarting server...
Restarted!

File changed: .idea/workspace.xml - Restarting server...
Restarted!

[tungv]

I know this is quite confusing, but ignore paths are absolute. So you need to use -i **/.idea

[NetOpWibby]

This is not working for me. I even asked a mod on the Slack how to properly ignore files a few weeks ago and he had no idea. Frustrating.

[tungv]

Hi @NetOperatorWibby, can you please describe your project directory structure and what files you want to ignore?

[NetOpWibby]

Sure!

I have two folders at the base of my project, processed and raw. I dump files into the latter for transcoding or whatever and then they get dropped in the former. I want to ignore any activity those folders perform.

I tried micro-dev -l 5mb -i processed -i raw -p ${PORT:-3000} and variations, including adding a prefixed/appended / to the folder names and a couple hours ago, the tip you mentioned gave me an error about regex matching.

[tungv]

oh I see, this PR #54 broke the tip I gave above.
However, I believe you can achieve your requirement by only watching a whitelist of files.

Given your actual server logic is resided in src folder, you can run:

micro-dev src/index.js -l 5mb -w src -p ${PORT:-3000}

I'm also a heavy user of micro-dev and I agree with you that --ignore is not well-documented and its behavior changed a lot without notice.

[NetOpWibby]

My server logic is actually like this:

lib
 ... other logic
modules
 ... custom modules
processed
raw
.gitignore
index.js
package.json
README.md

I'm watching more than I'm ignoring so using the ignore flag would be ideal. I hadn't thought about watching though.

[tungv]

I usually put my own logic code into a sub directory for

1. better searching (only search within that directory)
2. cases like this, eg: watching, ignoring

If I understand correcly, the hot codes you want to watch for changes are inside lib and the root index.js. Since the file you start micro-dev with will always be watched, so you can just -w lib.

[NetOpWibby]

@tungv Forgot to reply, that seems to have worked! Thanks for the help man.

[tungv]

You're welcome pal