Exclude subdirectories from plato metric tool

Question

I'm using the Plato tool to analyze my web app.

I'm currently running a command like

plato -r -d plato_report server public -x "public/|vendor|js" -t "My App"

to generate the report. The idea is that while I want to include the server and public folders in the analysis, I want to exclude public/vendor and public/js entirely. However, the exclusion doesn't seem to be working - plato includes files from the subdirectories I'm trying to ignore.

This could be a regex problem or a plato problem, and I'm not really sure here. I've tried other regex exclusion patterns like

-x ^public\/(|vendor|js)[a-zA-Z0-9-\.\/_]*

but to no avail, even though I think these patterns should match.

Any ideas how to achieve this desired behavior with plato? Thank you!

Answer 1

If you use grunt for building your app you could use the Gruntfile for grunt-plato as a guide : https://github.com/jsoverson/grunt-plato/blob/master/Gruntfile.js

To exclude directories, your task configuration would look something like this

 plato : {
    your_task : {
      src : [ 'src/**/*.js', '!src/vendor/**/*.js' ],
      dest : 'reports'
    }
  }

The ![pattern] syntax excludes files from the src list.