[BUG] Not able to exclude files from documentation

Overview of the issue

I’ve added files that I want to exclude in “exclude” option in tsconfig.json, but excluded files are still used to generate documentation.

Operating System, Node.js, npm, compodoc version(s)

macOS, node 6.10.1, npm 4.4.4, compodoc 1.0.0-beta.8

Angular configuration, a package.json file in the root folder

Compodoc installed globally or locally ?

Locally

Motivation for or Use Case

Reproduce the error

I ran: compodoc src -p tsconfig.compodoc.json -sw -disableGraph with tsconfig.compodoc.json: exclude: [ “/nodoc/*.ts" ] (I have also tried "src//nodoc/*.ts”) After generating documentation, files that should be excluded are still used to generate documentation.

Related issues

Suggest a Fix

[Zyzle]

@liuxinhu Hmmn, I’ve been able to exclude files by explicitly giving their path in tsconfig. The path should be relative to the tsconfig file compodoc looks at. So for an angular cli generated project this would be something like:

  "exclude": [
    "test.ts",
    "app/your-module/excluded.ts",
    "**/*.spec.ts",
  ]

When using the generated tsconfig.app.json file

[vogloblinsky]

You are welcome 😉 Don’t forget to reference the issue number in your commit. “Fix #175”