Watch: Support Path Pattern Matching #12544
Description
Request
It would be nice if the watch path attribute behaved like the ignore attribute. For example, path could accept wildcards such as *.
At the very least it would help to have some more detail in the API documentation adding that (at least for the time being) pattern matching does not work on path.
Reference: https://docs.docker.com/reference/compose-file/develop/
Example
I would like the convenience of being able to do this:
services:
frontend:
build:
context: ./frontend
dockerfile: Dockerfile
ports:
- "5173:5173"
develop:
watch:
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/*.json
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/*.jsinstead of the verbose (yet explicit):
services:
frontend:
build:
context: ./frontend
dockerfile: Dockerfile
ports:
- "5173:5173"
develop:
watch:
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/jsconfig.json
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/package-lock.json
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/package.json
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/eslint.config.js
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/svelte.config.js
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/tailwind.config.js
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/vite.config.jsNice To Have
Bonus points for allowing multiple path entries in a single rebuild action:
services:
frontend:
build:
context: ./frontend
dockerfile: Dockerfile
ports:
- "5173:5173"
develop:
watch:
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/*.json frontend/*.jsCurrently, passing a space separated list is silently interpreted as a single path. So, the below example (misleadingly) does not match frontend/package.json nor frontend/vite.config.js
- action: rebuild
path: frontend/package.json frontend/vite.config.js