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Majid Laissi
Majid Laissi

Reputation: 19788

How to ignore files from the Java Build in VSCode

I have a Java/Maven/Angular Web project that includes a lot of static node_modules files.

Whenever I start VSCode it starts refreshing the workspace:

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which takes a long time mainly because of the node_module folder.

I tried excluding it from VSCode by adding **/node_modules/** to VSCode settings, but it seems like the Java plugin doesn't care and still refreshes the whole node_modules folder.

Is there any way to exclude it ?

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4756

Answers (1)

Howard C.
Howard C.

Reputation: 11

The default settings java.project.resourceFilters in the VSCode Java extension should have already excluded node_modules directory. No need to use ** expression in java.project.resourceFilters.

    "java.project.resourceFilters": [
      "node_modules",
      ".git"
    ],

Java > Project: Resource Filters
Excludes files and folders from being refreshed by the Java Language Server, which can improve the overall performance. For example, ["node_modules",".git"] will exclude all files and folders named 'node_modules' or '.git'. Defaults to ["node_modules",".git"].

Upvotes: 1

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