Chokidar: globs are not working (again)

[ORESoftware]

TBH this library has caused me nothing but pain when it comes to file path matching. If I do this:

let watcher = chokidar.watch(['**/*.js']);

I also tried this, and this does not seem to work either:

let watcher = chokidar.watch('**/*.js');

Using the array, it will watch all sorts of files that don't end in '.js'...how can I tell chokidar to only watch files with a certain extension. I really don't want to use the ignore option to ignore the 15+ file extensions I don't want to watch, instead I'd rather just declare the one that I positively want to watch.

Please advise.

[ORESoftware]

What would make it so much better for users, is if you could accept an array of regular expressions for the "includes" argument. Globs have always caused me a world of pain, whereas JS regexes seem to not. I closed this issue thinking I was imagining things, but I am not unfortunately.

[HunterMitchell]

I can confirm. Everything broke after 1.7.0 and I still cannot get an array of globs to work. Did you find a fix or workaround other than reverting back to the older version @ORESoftware ?

[klemenoslaj]

No updates? This issue seems to be a major one, and for sure it's blocking me from updating or using it in new project.

[paulmillr]

What about disableGlobbing option?

[kallaspriit]

For me using absolute glob paths failed, using arrays or not (nothing is reported) but relative paths work (Windows platform, chokidar v2.0.4).

Not sure if this is for a good reason or a bug, but it should at least be mentioned in the docs.

Basically this does not work:

chokidar
  .watch("C:/foo/bar/*.js", {
    ignoreInitial: true
  })

But this works:

chokidar
  .watch("bar/*.js", {
    ignoreInitial: true,
    cwd: "C:/foo"
  })

Would expect them to do the same thing, am I missing something?

[paulmillr]

Update to Chokidar v3, it should resolve this.