# VuePress Server
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The VuePress live-reload server is best for development purposes and is the default server. It can be changed in the config.jon file if desired.
By default the VuePress server uses the following patterns for files to watch
if patterns is not present in config.json.
patterns: ['**/*.md', '**/*.vue'],
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If needed files or an entire folder can be excluded as show below
'!not-this-folder/**' using (!).
patterns: ['**/*.md', '**/*.vue', '!not-this-folder/**']
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