Ignore files from node ace serve --watch

[jacobq]

I have a task running in the background that generates some plain files like build/public/folder-to-ignore/foo/bar.json that I want my AdonisJS app to serve as static files. This works fine, but I can't simultaneously use the --watch (default npm start) feature or it will get stuck in an infinite loop. Is there some way that I can specify a glob/pattern or folder to ignore?

[iammrsea]

How often does your background task that generates the plain files run? If it's frequent, that could explain why you are experiencing an infinite loop behavior because with --watch flag, your server restarts any time public folder changes. I assume you registered your public folder in .adonisrc.json, and if that's the case, you can modify it like this:

{
 "metaFiles":[
      {
        "pattern": "public/**",
        "reloadServer: false
     }
    ]
}

[thetutlage]

As you are writing files directly to the build folder. I don't think, the AdonisJS watcher will cause any issues, since it ignores the build folder by default

[jacobq]

@iammrsea @thetutlage Thanks for your replies. The files were getting generated on start-up and then about every 5 minutes. Looks like I was writing to public (though perhaps to build/public in others if launched some other way than npm start / ace serve --watch). Admittedly that's not a great setup, but it's working for now. The reloadServer option did the trick (though the code above is missing a "). I was also using __dirname as part of a default path; now that I'm using an env var for this I don't have to second guess.

[ivan-suhorukov]

Hello! I'm trying to combine adonisjs with the vite on frontend and i put my frontend folder in root folder of adonis. Next i'm runing vite serve and node ace serve --watch in parallel. It works, but now ace server restarts every time i get change in my frontend folder. I don't want to add my frontend folder in metaFiles section of config, because i don't need this folder in build output. So my question is the same: can i exclude folder from ace watching? Or maybe there is better way to do all of this?