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Ignore node_modules when watching files

See original GitHub issue

To potentially prevent issues such as https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/369, only watch the user’s source files and ignore node_modules (and maybe other directories? https://github.com/novemberborn/ignore-by-default/blob/master/index.js).

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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brian-manncommented, Mar 9, 2017

Fixed in 0.19.1.

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brian-manncommented, Feb 21, 2017

Let’s add a configuration option to cypress.json to allow users to configure other directories to ignore.

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