plugin clean folder even on re-build about clean-webpack-plugin HOT 4 CLOSED

@shlomisas As originally mentioned by @Jonathancollinet and stated in the documentation:

By passing dist as the path, you are asking for the dist folder itself to be cleaned (removed). To remove all of the files within the dist folder, your config should actually be

new CleanWebpackPlugin([
   'dist/*.*'          // Removes all files in `dist` folder
],
{
    root: projectRoot,
    watch: false       // You can delete this, as this does not change anything for your use case
})

and if your dist folder has multiple levels, make sure to include those paths as well

new CleanWebpackPlugin([
   'dist/*.*'          // Removes all files in `dist` folder
   'dist/**/*.*'       // Removes all files in `dist/**` folders
   'dist/**/**/*.*'    // Removes all files in `dist/**/**` folders
],
{
    root: projectRoot,
    watch: false       // You can delete this, as this does not change anything for your use case
})

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look at this

Paths (Required)

An [array] of string paths to clean

[
  'dist',         // removes 'dist' folder
  'build/*.*',    // removes all files in 'build' folder
  'web/*.js'      // removes all JavaScript files in 'web' folder
]

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as you can see in my code sample, i already have ['dist'] array as paths to clean, but it still deletes it everytime the watcher build instead of just on the first web pack build.

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Closed in v2.0.0 via #99. See johnagan/clean-webpack-plugin#usage. Please open a new issue if you continue to have problems.

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