Choose folders to be ignored during search in VS Code

Question

Right now when I use ⌘+O to search for files, the fuzzy matching appears to operate over all files in the current project. Unfortunately, this includes

Answer 1

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If these are folders you want to ignore in a certain workspace, you can go to:

AppMenu > Preferences > Workspace Settings

Otherwise, if you want these folders to be ignored in all your workspaces, go to:

AppMenu > Preferences > User Settings

and add the following to your configuration:

//-------- Search configuration --------

// The folders to exclude when doing a full text search in the workspace.
"search.excludeFolders": [
    ".git",
    "node_modules",
    "bower_components",
    "path/to/other/folder/to/exclude"
],

The difference between workspace and user settings is explained in the customization docs