ignore everything except repeated specific sub directories

[UROjQ6r80p]

How to make nodemon ignore everything in a folder, except nested sub directories? I want to ignore everything in src folder except every folder with name components (nested etc.)

so src/file.js, src/something/nested/file.js should be ignored, but src/components/file.js, src/something/nested/components/file.js should not be ignored.

I tried ! but it doesn't work.

{
    "verbose": true,
    "ignore": [
        "vite.config.js.timestamp-*.mjs",
        "node_modules/",
        "src/!(**/components/**)",
        "dist/"
    ],
    "ext": "*"
}

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[remy]

@UROjQ6r80p honestly I'm not sure what the right globbing pattern is, but underneath it all, nodemon uses Chokidar for watch and (some) ignoring and that uses code that follows minimatch syntax, so you're best referring to those docs: https://github.com/micromatch/picomatch#advanced-globbing (and if I were you, I'd probably get the minimatch in a repl and see if I can get something that matches).

[UROjQ6r80p]

Yup, thanks I'll try.