.gitignore for node_modules?

[erelsgl]

When I fork this repo, and do "npm install", the folder is filled with node_modules, and since there is no .gitignore, git tries to commit them...

From what I read, there are two options for handling node_modules in git projects:

A. Keep all the node_modules in the git repository, together with my project, or:

B. Don't keep any node_modules in the git repository, and have a ".gitignore" file that contains "node_modules".

However, here, there are no node_modules, but also no .gitignore file...

I am not an expert, so maybe it's my mistake.

[francescortiz]

You can create your own .gitignore which ignores itself.

Create a .gitignore with this two records:

.gitignore
node_modules

[erelsgl]

Thanks, I think it would be easier for new users and contributors to have this .gitignore bundled with the code, so that they don't have to add it themselves.

[umerjamil16]

You can create your own .gitignore file and add the folders/file names you want to exclude from your git repositories in production.

[amarkantk14]

To create .gitignore file use touch command

user-name$ touch .gitignore
then open .gitignore file and add /node_modules

.gitignore
/node_modules

it will work.

[DMW007]

Seems not to work with subfolders. I have the following directory structure:

<git-root>
-- server
---- node_modules

By simply adding node_modules to .gitignore, a lot of files in server/node_modules are marked as unstaged. Only excluding the hole path server/node_modules/ works as expected.

[rrajvanshi1947]

In your root folder within the .gitignore file, you need to write *node_modules to ignore the node_modules folder under any sub folder.

[Macil]

@rrajvanshi1947 Just "node_modules" without a / at the start will do that too. (.gitignore ignores the listed files in any directory, unless they start with /, in which case the line is expected to be the relative path to a file.)

[dmoraroca]

To create .gitignore file use touch command

user-name$ touch .gitignore
then open .gitignore file and add /node_modules

.gitignore
/node_modules

it will work.

For me, it worked

[Mstarr85]

Thank you!

[MelanieRogoff]

I saw a great answer on StackOverflow by a fellow programmer (https://stackoverflow.com/users/2854041/andrew-schreiber). He wrote: touch .gitignore && echo "node_modules/" >> .gitignore && git rm -r --cached node_modules ; git status
It works perfectly (I'm using an OS).

[AlongTheDeveloper]

hello

[DavidCortes13]

Cual debería ser el modo correcto de guardar node_modules en mi proyecto, ¿Dentro o fuera del .git ignore?