(find "$projroot" -name .git -prune -o -name node_modules -prune -o \
         \( -name '*.[tj]s' -o -name '*.[tj]sx' \) -print0 ;
     find "$projroot"/node_modules \
         \( -name '*.[tj]s' -o -name '*.[tj]sx' \) -print0 ;
     find "$projroot" -name .git -prune -o -name dist -prune -o \
         \( -name '*.py' \) -print0 ) |
    xargs -0 grep /dev/null "$search_pattern"

Doing the three searches separately and exiting after one succeeds is only slightly more code.

and

https://github.com/paddymul/emacs-from-scratch/blob/master/p...

The emacs-lisp for changing the behaviour of consult-grep was quite complex and took a while to write.