diff --git a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/README.md b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/README.md
index 49f51a5cd77048..498d2d7f3126bc 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/README.md
+++ b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/README.md
@@ -27,6 +27,25 @@ export default {
 
 [Full list of Babel parser plugins](https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-parser#ecmascript-proposalshttpsgithubcombabelproposals).
 
+## Specifying files to include or exclude from refreshing
+
+By default, @vite/plugin-react-refresh will process files ending with `.js`, `.jsx`, `.ts`, and `.tsx`, and excludes all files in `node_modules`.
+
+In some situations you may not want a file to act as an HMR boundary, instead preferring that the changes propagate higher in the stack before being handled. In these cases, you can provide an `include` and/or `exclude` option, which can be regex or a [picomatch](https://github.com/micromatch/picomatch#globbing-features) pattern, or array of either. Files must match include and not exclude to be processed. Note, when using either `include`, or `exclude`, the defaults will not be merged in, so re-apply them if necessary.
+
+```js
+export default {
+  plugins: [
+    reactRefresh({
+      // Exclude storybook stories and node_modules
+      exclude: [/\.stories\.(t|j)sx?$/, /node_modules/],
+      // Only .tsx files
+      include: '**/*.tsx'
+    })
+  ]
+}
+```
+
 ### Notes
 
 - If using TSX, any TS-supported syntax will already be transpiled away so you won't need to specify them here.
diff --git a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.d.ts b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.d.ts
index f5197c9089f7b5..20fd573b44beae 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.d.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.d.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ type PluginFactory = (options?: Options) => Plugin
 declare const createPlugin: PluginFactory & { preambleCode: string }
 
 export interface Options {
-  parserPlugins: ParserOptions['plugins']
+  parserPlugins?: ParserOptions['plugins']
+  include?: string | RegExp | Array<string | RegExp>
+  exclude?: string | RegExp | Array<string | RegExp>
 }
 
 export default createPlugin
diff --git a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.js b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.js
index 0a1a415da17d7f..f72a12fa065a51 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.js
+++ b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/index.js
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // @ts-check
 const fs = require('fs')
 const { transformSync, ParserOptions } = require('@babel/core')
-
+const { createFilter } = require('@rollup/pluginutils')
 const runtimePublicPath = '/@react-refresh'
 const runtimeFilePath = require.resolve(
   'react-refresh/cjs/react-refresh-runtime.development.js'
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ window.__vite_plugin_react_preamble_installed__ = true
 function reactRefreshPlugin(opts) {
   let shouldSkip = false
   let base = '/'
+  const filter = createFilter(
+    (opts && opts.include) || /\.(t|j)sx?$/,
+    (opts && opts.exclude) || /node_modules/
+  )
 
   return {
     name: 'react-refresh',
@@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ function reactRefreshPlugin(opts) {
         return
       }
 
-      if (!/\.(t|j)sx?$/.test(id) || id.includes('node_modules')) {
+      if (!filter(id)) {
         return
       }
 
diff --git a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/package.json b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/package.json
index 5cf65b440f95ec..085cb156c83aca 100644
--- a/packages/plugin-react-refresh/package.json
+++ b/packages/plugin-react-refresh/package.json
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     "@babel/core": "^7.14.6",
     "@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-self": "^7.14.5",
     "@babel/plugin-transform-react-jsx-source": "^7.14.5",
+    "@rollup/pluginutils": "^4.1.0",
     "react-refresh": "^0.9.0"
   }
 }