Ability to ignore files from build and livesync

Users should be able to setup the CLI to ignore particular files, usually ts, .d.ts, or other source files in a language that compiles to JS / CSS.

We can use the same rules, default rules and implementation code from AppBuilder CLI.

Things to consider:

• We can move the rules into package.json, introduce a dedicated .tnsignore file, or use .abignore file - the latest option brings 100% interoperability with Telerik Platform
  • Implement interoperability with AppBuilder- i.e. appbuilder init from existing {N} project should consume existing {N} specific ignore rules.

[enchev]

In my opinion .tnsignore is better!

[ghost]

@pkoleva Not that I can think of right now. Sorry for the late response.

I am interested in a way to add a filter on which kinds of files to watch. Usually this can be expressed as a RegExp or by some simpler means (filename extension, but this isn’t enough in my case).

Emacs, when auto-saving, creates files with the format ‘.#<original filename>’, and sometimes ‘#<original filename>#’ also shows up, but I think that’s a different feature. And then we have some versions which save the file with a tilde in the end (<original filename>~). So the easiest way would be to allow a list of filters. For example --watch-ignore [“.#", "##”], where the strings will differ depending on the approach you take I suppose, RegExp or a simpler way of matching.

This was still a problem the last time I ran ‘tns run android’ (which I think is livesync, correct?) in my project. May have been fixed since this was before the big release. But is there a way to add the filter(s) manually?