I’m doing some slightly bizarre stuff using Jest for testing where I’m writing some stuff to disk. If I use the watch
flag in Jest however then I’m finding (quite obviously) that each time I write something to disk the tests refire again.
I don’t currently have any sort of configuration, and I’ve taken a look at the documentation, but it’s really not clear to me which option I need to be using to suppress watching particular files. I believe I can see options to exclude code from code-coverage and test execution, but not the actual watcher.
In my case I’ve got a setup like this and I just want to suppress my results directory:
__tests__
__snapshots__
(created by Jest)results
(created by me and the directory to exclude)
- testfile1.js
How can I do this?
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Answer
From the documentation you need to add modulePathIgnorePatterns which is an array of string values which will be matched against
modulePathIgnorePatterns [array<string>] #
(default: []) An array of regexp pattern strings that are matched against all module paths before those paths are to be considered ‘visible’ to the module loader. If a given module’s path matches any of the patterns, it will not be require()-able in the test environment. These pattern strings match against the full path. Use the <rootDir> string token to include the path to your project’s root directory to prevent it from accidentally ignoring all of your files in different environments that may have different root directories. Example: [‘<rootDir>/build/’].
https://facebook.github.io/jest/docs/configuration.html#modulepathignorepatterns-array-string
Add this to your configuration…
modulePathIgnorePatterns: ["directoryNameToIgnore"]
or:
modulePathIgnorePatterns: ["<rootDir>/dist/"]