Increase initialisation speed by optionally excluding files to scan

README.md

@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ This will start a webserver on the default settings (http://localhost:8000) and
 
 If Chrome or Chromium is installed then by default it will open in that in App Mode (with the `--app` cmdline flag), regardless of what the OS's default browser is set to (it is possible to override this behaviour).
 
+If you have large amounts of .html or .js files, eel.init() might take up a long time to scan those files for exposed functions. By passing a list of paths to the init function's exclude_path parameter you can exclude these files from being scanned. 
+
 ### App options
 
 Additional options can be passed to `eel.start()` as keyword arguments.

eel/__init__.py

@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def decorator(function: Callable[..., Any]) -> Any:
 
 
 def init(path: str, allowed_extensions: List[str] = ['.js', '.html', '.txt', '.htm',
- '.xhtml', '.vue'], js_result_timeout: int = 10000) -> None:
+ '.xhtml', '.vue'], exclude_path: List[str] = [], js_result_timeout: int = 10000) -> None:
  global root_path, _js_functions, _js_result_timeout
  root_path = _get_real_path(path)
 
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ def init(path: str, allowed_extensions: List[str] = ['.js', '.html', '.txt', '.h
  if not any(name.endswith(ext) for ext in allowed_extensions):
  continue
 
+ # exclude specific file paths to increase loading speed on initialisation
+ if any(exclude in os.path.join(root, name) for exclude in exclude_path):
+ continue
+
  try:
  with open(os.path.join(root, name), encoding='utf-8') as file:
  contents = file.read()