Ignore Node_modules folder
While working on a project, there may be certain folders that you don't want git to track; these can be .envfiles, node_modulesfolders, etc.
These folders are intended for use only on the local computer and should not be shared with other computers. This may be because node_modulesthe folders may vary in size from a few megabytes to several gigabytes.
While working, we certainly don't want to track node_modulesmany changes to a folder. Therefore, we can use various methods to ignore the folder.
node_modulesIgnore folders
in the root folder
Let's take the following folder structure:
.
|
├── .gitignore
├── node_modules
└── src
└── index.html
Here, we need to set up our project so that we do not include folders tracked by git node_modules, this can be .gitignoredone by creating a file. .gitignoreThe files/folders mentioned in will not be tracked by git. So to ignore node_modules, .gitignorethe contents inside the folder should be as follows:
node_modules
node_modulesIgnore all folders
that exist in the entire project
To demonstrate this, let's take the following project with the following folder structure:
.
├── backend
│ ├── index.html
│ └── node_modules
├── frontend
│ ├── index.html
│ └── node_modules
└── .gitignore
frontendThere are two folders in the and backendfolders and only one file in the project root. To ignore both folders, the contents of the folders must be:node_modules.gitignorenode_modules.gitignore
**/node_modules
Here, two consecutive asterisks **followed by a slash /are matched in all directories to match the folders within the frontendand folders. Hence, this will make Git ignore both the and folders.backendnode_modulesnode_modules
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