How can I configure Web Essentials 2013 to ignore files?

Question

I have a fresh MVC 5.1 web app project in VS 2013 (Update 1) w/ Web Essential 2013 (latest as of today) installed. After building the project, Web Essentials scans for javas

Answer 1

I had the same issue after installing KendoUI. It was basically impossible to run the project. I solved it by going to Web Essentials -> Edit global JSCS settings and adding:

"excludeFiles": ["Scripts/kendo/*"]

below the "excludeFiles": ["test/data/*.js"] entry.

Now the .jscs.json file looks like this:

{
"requireCurlyBraces": ["if", "else", "for", "while", "do", "try", "catch"],
"requireSpaceAfterKeywords": ["if", "else", "for", "while", "do", "switch", "return", "try", "catch"],
"disallowLeftStickedOperators": ["?", "+", "-", "/", "*", "=", "==", "===", "!=", "!==", ">", ">=", "<", "<="],
"disallowRightStickedOperators": ["?", "+", "/", "*", ":", "=", "==", "===", "!=", "!==", ">", ">=", "<", "<="],
"requireRightStickedOperators": ["!"],
"requireLeftStickedOperators": [","],
"disallowImplicitTypeConversion": ["string"],
"disallowKeywords": ["with"],
"disallowMultipleLineBreaks": true,
"disallowKeywordsOnNewLine": ["else"],
"excludeFiles": ["test/data/*.js"],
"excludeFiles": ["Scripts/kendo/*"]
"validateJSDoc": {
    "checkParamNames": true,
    "requireParamTypes": true
    }
}

Just replace the ["Scripts/kendo/*"] with whatever you want to exclude. Worked like a charm for me.