[RFC]: Setting for ignoring a folder in chokidar

[hacknaked]

Summary

Add a configuration setting to instruct chokidar ignore a folder in the root project.

Motivation

Working with RedwoodJS and Docker in a local environment, I run a Docker container with an external service and mounted a volume "data" for container persistence.

This folder is scanned by chokidar and fails with EACCESS (given that Docker set root permissions on that folder)

Error: EACCES: permission denied, watch '..../git/proj/data/bitcoind/testnet3/blocks'
gen |     at FSWatcher.<computed> (node:internal/fs/watchers:247:19)
gen |     at Object.watch (node:fs:2343:34)
gen |     at createFsWatchInstance (....../node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:119:15

There are other use cases when would be nice to add folders in the Redwood root project and prevent chokidar to scan them (3rd party tools, infrastructure folders, etc.)

Detailed proposal

1. Adding a [chokidar] section in redwood.toml is probably enough.
2. Other option (simpler) would be to hardcode the setting when creating the chokidar instance (for example: "ignore all folders that begins with a dot like .data")

Are you interested in working on this?

• I'm interested in working on this

[Tobbe]

This comment on another issue is also in favor of this feature: #5403 (comment)

@hacknaked Is your issue a duplicate of this? #7761

[hacknaked]

Seems to be the same feature request! Sorry for the noise, closing this one in favor of #7761.