How to ignore a specific folder and its subfolders in Playwright?

Question

In my Playwright project, I need to ignore a directory and all of it's sub directories.

For example if I have the following directories tree:

tests -> fooFolder --> foo2Folder ---> fooFile2.spec.ts
                       fooFile1.spec.ts

         barFolder --> barFile.spec.ts

In this example I need to ignore fooFolder and all tests under it.

I tried ignore it like this:

projects: [
    {
      name: "bar only",
      testIgnore: ["/tests/fooFolder/*.spec.ts"], // ignores only test files that directly under fooFolder
    },
]

I've also tried with /tests/fooFolder//*.spec.ts but this causes no ignore at all.

I can put an array of the sub-directories, but this is impractical.

Answer 1

I've found a way,

apparently, if I add /** (glob pattern) in between /fooFolder and /*.spec.ts this will ignore all test file under fooFolder and all of it's sub-directories

Code example:

projects: [
    {
      name: "bar only",
      testIgnore: ["/tests/fooFolder/**/*.spec.ts"], // ignores all test files under fooFolder and it's sub-dirs
    },
]