Support more matching capabilties

[Lars Strojny]

https://github.com/axtgr/wildcard-match is used for matching the onlyOn attribute. Unfortunately wildcard-match does not support features like brace expansion (e.g. **/*.{js,ts} to match .js and .ts files). Maybe it would be an alternative to adopt something like https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch to provide a bit more features.

[Maxence Lecanu]

Indeed, I don't really like the way the onlyOn feature is implemented so far:

• It relies on some random js library and I am highly reluctant to that. I just don't have enough knowledge on the matter yet to come up with a nicer solution... Any inputs are welcome for this !
• It definitely lacks matching features like regexp vs patterns, brace expansion as you mentioned it

I'll look into the library you mentioned and it's companions so that I can decide if it's possible to add it

[David Fox-Powell]

I'm struggling with this as well trying to do a negative lookahead.

const matcher = require('wildcard-match');

const globs = [
  '**/*.jsx',
  '**/*.js',
  '(?!dont-match/)/**/*',
];
const match = matcher(globs)

console.log(match.regexp)

// /^(?:^(?:[^/\\]*?[/\\]+?)*?[^/\\]*?\.jsx[/\\]*?$|^(?:[^/\\]*?[/\\]+?)*?[^/\\]*?\.js[/\\]*?$|^\([^/\\]!dont\-match[/\\]+?\)[/\\]+?(?:[^/\\]*?[/\\]+?)*?[^/\\]*?[/\\]*?$)$/

maybe it's possible but I'm not sure 🤷

[Alex Schneider]

Hi!

I'm the author of wildcard-match. The library is indeed very basic and doesn't support many features. I have a more feature-packed library: outmatch. It has brace expansion, negation and other advanced features and should work as a drop-in replacement.

I understand the reluctance to use random libraries. In case you decide to stick to the more established ones, either micromatch or picomatch are a good choice.