exclude

Package: @autotracer/inject-react18  ·  Layer: Build  ·  Type: object  ·  Default: { paths: ["**/*.test.*", "**/*.spec.*", "**/node_modules/**", "**/dist/**", "**/build/**", "**/.next/**", "**/coverage/**", "**/tests/**", "**/test/**", "**/__tests__/**"], components: [] }

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exclude is a shared transform configuration option used by the file and component eligibility checks before transform() injects anything. It removes files or component names from the eligible set.

The object is deep-merged with the default config. If you add components, the default excluded paths stay in place unless you replace paths explicitly.

Fields

• paths: file patterns skipped before transformation
• components: component names or patterns skipped inside otherwise eligible files

File-level exclusion is checked before the transform runs at all. Component-level exclusion is absolute inside the eligible file set: if a component matches exclude.components, // @trace does not force it back in.

Usage

import { normalizeConfig } from "@autotracer/inject-react18";

const config = normalizeConfig({
  exclude: {
    components: [/^Internal/, "DebugPanel"],
  },
});

Read together with include and mode because eligibility is resolved before pragma and mode fallback behavior.