Simple nodemon.json config to watch all except for certain files

Question

nodemon.json:

{
  "verbose": true,
  "ignore": [
    ".git",
    "node_modules",
    "*.marko.js"
  ],
  "watch": [
    "**/*"
  ]
}

I'd like for nodemon to watch every file in every directory except for those which I specifically set to ignore.

The above config isn't doing it:

[nodemon] files triggering change check: src/template.marko
[nodemon] matched rule: **/src/**/*
[nodemon] changes after filters (before/after): 1/0

It doesn't restart.

Solution

I had the same issue earlier, it seems the nodemon.json doesn't do the thing, so try to do it in an inline commnad :

nodemon --ignore '.git'

(you can put this as a npm script as well)

Comments

[basickarl]

I actually use browser-refresh in development (it's great, also can't wait for v4 of marko). I actually got used to how browser-refresh works so I wanted to reflect the behavior in nodemon (as another project relies on it)!

[basickarl]

Also I have a question regarding browser-refresh. Is it possible to reuse the same tab when using process.send({ event:'online', url:'http://localhost:8080/' });, server restarts always popup a new window?