How can I exclude files from Jest watch?

Question

I\'m doing some slightly bizarre stuff using Jest for testing where I\'m writing some stuff to disk. If I use the watch flag in Jest however then I\'m finding (quit

Answer 1

Based on Jest documentation, watchPathIgnorePatterns should be the way you want to go. That works in Jest 23.x.x and later.

You can add this config to jest.config.js or package.json > jest