NestJS prevent server reloading in development - node.js

Question

I have a route which creates a new folder inside public directory which is a static content served with app.useStaticAssets.
The problem is that even if I added the public directory inside exclude array of both tsconfig.build.json and tsconfig.json, my server still reloads in development when a new folder is deleted or created inside public directory.
I'm missing something ?
UPDATE:
tsconfig.json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"module": "commonjs",
"declaration": true,
"removeComments": true,
"noImplicitAny": true,
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"esModuleInterop": true,
"target": "es2017",
"sourceMap": true,
"outDir": "./dist",
"baseUrl": "./",
"incremental": true
},
"exclude": ["node_modules", "dist", "public"]
}
I mention that public folder is outside of the src folder. They are on the same level.

Answer 1

I was able to reproduce this and found out that this seems to be a common issue -> https://github.com/nestjs/nest/issues/3510
As propsed in the github issue, adding include as a workaround seems to fix the problem:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"module": "commonjs",
"declaration": true,
"removeComments": true,
"noImplicitAny": true,
"emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
"experimentalDecorators": true,
"esModuleInterop": true,
"target": "es2017",
"sourceMap": true,
"outDir": "./dist",
"baseUrl": "./",
"incremental": true
},
"include": ["src"],
"exclude": ["node_modules", "dist", "public"]
}

Answer 2

If you want to completely disable hot reload temporarily, remove the --watch flag from your start:dev script.
Go into package.json
Find your "start:dev" script under "scripts"
Duplicate your "start:dev" script and rename it - I named it start:dev-noreload
Your script should look something like this:
"start:dev-noreload": "npm run prebuild && npm run kill:dev-process && npm run build:docker-postgres && env ENV=DEV nest start"
Run your app using
npm run start:dev-noreload
In order to get hot reload back, just run the way you normally do.
Either using npm start, or npm run start:dev.