VS Code: How to exclude folders from npm task auto-detection?

Question

Visual Studio Code shows configured and auto-detected tasks in its Run Tasks menu. I would like to exclude the bin folder and all its subfolders from the npm task auto-detection. The npm.exclude setting appears to be designed for that purpose, but I haven't found how to use it.

I tried the following variations, with no success:

"npm.exclude": "**/bin"
"npm.exclude": "**/bin/"
"npm.exclude": "./bin"
"npm.exclude": "./bin/"
"npm.exclude": "**/bin/*.*"
"npm.exclude": "./bin/*.*"
"npm.exclude": ["**/bin"]
"npm.exclude": ["**/bin/"]
"npm.exclude": ["./bin"]
"npm.exclude": ["./bin/"]
"npm.exclude": ["**/bin/*.*"]
"npm.exclude": ["./bin/*.*"]

The syntax used for files.exclude and search.exclude doesn't appear to be allowed:

"files.exclude": {
     "**/.git": true,
     "**/.svn": true,
     "**/.hg": true
 }

What is the appropriate syntax for the npm.exclude setting?

Answer 1

"npm.exclude" requires a "string and uses glob. So, my settings for npm.exclude, with multiple rules:

"npm.exclude": "**/@(vendor|node_modules|bower_components|dist|static)/**"

Answer 2

Try (in your settings.json)

"npm.exclude": "**/bin/**"

that works for me to exclude scripts in workspaceFolder/bin/package.json