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Using chokidar watch file, RegEx for param `ignored` is invalid

I am using chokidar to watch files ending with (.js|.jsx|.scss) as below, but RegEx does not work. if just run /^(?!.*(?:\.jsx?|\.scss)$).*$/, it works fine.

const watcher = chokidar.watch('./app', {
      ignored: /^(?!.*(?:\.jsx?|\.scss)$).*$/,
      ignoreInitial: true,
      persistent: true
})
Solution

  • chokidar watches files, also watches paths. So /^(?!.*(?:\.jsx?|\.scss)$).*$/ would ignore files not ending with .js/jsx/.scss but also all paths. To resolve this problem, I use below RegEx:

    /^(?=.*(\.\w+)$)(?!.*(?:\.jsx?|\.scss)$).*$/