Exclude directories from being watched in TypeScript

Question

--watch is a neat feature during development. However, in my app I upload files to a directory named tmp. Whenever a file has been uploaded to this directory my app re-compiles which leads to all kinds of problems. I want to exclude tmp from being watched.

What I have tried so far is adding tmp to the "exclude": property in tsconfig.json, but this does not help.

I have looked at the documentation but I can't find any info on how to do this. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/configuring-watch.html

Is what I'm trying to achieve possible?

Answer 1

I actually have this working with the exclude on tsconfig like this:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "preserveConstEnums": true,
    "strict": true,
    "target": "es2017",
    "baseUrl": ".",
  },
  "exclude": ["__tests__"]
}

When i change any file on my __tests__ folder it will not compile again with watch mode.

NOTE: I'm using the latest tsc