Regex and config.json -file - regex

Question

I am building an Angular application and trying to figure out the way to write ngsw-config.json -file in order to define rules for service worker.
I assumed that regex would be recognized as regex in configuration file and not interpret as normal characters / text automatically, but it was not so. I have for example following piece of a code:
"name": "authentication",
"urls": [
"/login",
"/.*authentication.*"
],
part .* is not in my understanding recognized as regex (regex meaning in this case that any path that has text "authentication" would fall into this category, right?). This piece of a configuration tries to prevent service worker to take a lead in these two cases, it works with /login, but not with authentication part.
Question:
Can I somehow modify my file to make it recognize regex definitions?

Answer 1

According to the documentation at https://angular.io/guide/service-worker-config
you can use a limited glob format.
I don't know what kind of url you want to match.
Option: If you want to match a url like /foo/bar/authentication/foo2/bar2 you could use:
"name": "authentication",
"urls": [
"/login",
"/**/authentication/**/*"
],
Option: If you want to match a url like /foo/bar/something-authentication-otherthing/foo2/bar2 you could use:
"name": "authentication",
"urls": [
"/login",
"/**/*authentication*/**/*"
],