Another watch.json question

[tleylan]

I just wrote/installed a discord bot (to play with). It works fine as a bot. I found info re: the watch.json file and checked the watch-json project but there seems to be some documentation missing. I created a small file what sets a throttle and it probably works but what does the “install” section do. I see a sample with “^\.env$” in it but I have no idea what that will do.

The watch.json file probably should be promoted (somehow) as it can be a little disconcerting to make some edits and have the project try to rebuild every few seconds while working on it.

[wh0]

huh, the official docs must not be as helpful. there’s this one README.md – glitchnomicon that thoroughly describes “install”:

which files will cause Glitch to terminate the server, run the install command, and run start again

with additional info above:

Both include and exclude are an Array of regular expression patterns that match file paths in the project’s code.

which explains the ^ and $ and \. in the ^\.env$ entry you mentioned

[tleylan]

Thanks. That seemed more complete.