Git - Ignore node_modules folder everywhere

Question

I have a project containing multiple other projects :

• Main project
  • Mini project 1
  • Mini project 2

All containing <

Answer 1

Add this

node_modules/

to .gitignore file to ignore all directories called node_modules in current folder and any subfolders

Answer 2

Try doing something like this

**/node_modules

** is used for a recursive call in the whole project

Two consecutive asterisks ** in patterns matched against full pathname may have special meaning:

A leading ** followed by a slash means match in all directories. For example, **/foo matches file or directory foo anywhere, the same as pattern foo. **/foo/bar matches file or directory bar anywhere that is directly under directory foo.

A trailing /** matches everything inside. For example, abc/** matches all files inside directory abc, relative to the location of the .gitignore file, with infinite depth.

A slash followed by two consecutive asterisks then a slash matches zero or more directories. For example, a/\**/b matches a/b, a/x/b, a/x/y/b and so on.

Other consecutive asterisks are considered invalid.

Reference

Answer 3

First and foremost thing is to add .gitignore file in my-app. Like so in image below.

and next add this in your .gitignore file

/node_modules

Note

You can also add others files too to ignore them to be pushed on github. Here are some more files kept in .gitignore. You can add them according to your requirement. # is just a way to comment in .gitignore file.

# See https://help.github.com/ignore-files/ for more about ignoring files.

# dependencies
/node_modules

# testing
/coverage

# production
/build

# misc
.DS_Store
.env.local
.env.development.local
.env.test.local
.env.production.local

npm-debug.log*
yarn-debug.log*
yarn-error.log*

Answer 4

Adding below line in .gitignore will ignore node modules from the entire repository.

node_modules

Answer 5

Create .gitignore file in root folder directly by code editor or by command

For Mac & Linux

 touch .gitignore 

For Windows

 echo .gitignore 

open .gitignore declare folder or file name like this /foldername