Not able to exclude node_modules folder

I run the following command on an Angular2 project:

typedoc --experimentalDecorators --target 'es5' --module 'commonjs' --externalPattern node_modules --excludeExternals --ignoreCompilerErrors --out docs/ web/

I am apparently not able to properly exclude the node_modules folder from the documentation. Whatever I do, the node_modules packages get documented. This is the folder structure /web _ _/app _ _/assets _ _/e2e _ _/node_modules _ _/typings

I tried using exclude and externalPattern + excludeExternals. I tried many combinations of patterns, but apparently I am doing it wrong. I tried values like this: node_modules /node_modules/ node_modules/** node_modules/*/.ts etc.

I would be very grateful if someone pointed out my mistake and made a couple of examples how the patterns should be defined?

[alexisbg]

Add: "skipLibCheck": true to tsconfig.json compilerOptions.

[jtc10005]

I used "externalPattern": "**/node_modules/**", or "exclude": "**/node_modules/**" in my typedoc.json (I can’t remember which)