Chokidar: Tracking single folder with ignored complex subdirectory tree is slow.

[AdaRoseCannon]

The goal is to look into a single folder to see if files are added/deleted/changed and ignore all the sub directories.

If I use the example from the readme in my home directory it is very slow to start even though I am ignoring all the sub directories.

var watcher = chokidar.watch(process.env.HOME, {
  ignored: /(^|[\/\\])\../,
  ignorePermissionErrors: true,
  alwaysStat: true,
  ignoreInitial: true
});

If I append the path with /. to make it a glob for the files it is very fast. But misses files with no extensions.

It seems that it is watching the whole sub directory tree.

I looked through the documentation and I couldn't find a way to make a glob which matched just the contents of a single dir but no sub dir.

Am I missing something?

[es128]

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[AdaRoseCannon]

Can't believe I missed that, thank you!

[es128]

No problem 😺