I'm a newbie Node.JS developer...
What do developers usually exclude from their Node.JS git repositories in production via .gitignore?
node_modules? bin? Etc...
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GitHub has created a repository to answer this kind of questions for several languages/frameworks, including one for NodeJS.
https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Node.gitignore
Here is the current one for reference :
lib-cov *.seed *.log *.csv *.dat *.out *.pid *.gz pids logs results build node_modules 
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Frank N
as of 2015, add
bower_components ?Frank N
If you want to script it:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Node.gitignore --no-check-certificate -O .gitignore 8-)
Luan Cardoso
Great!! This is exactly what I was looking for! It will be helpful to another kind of projects too, bc it has gitignore templates to various languages. Tks a lot!!
Easiest way to check that out is to look at the most popular Node.js modules on github:
https://github.com/visionmedia/express/blob/master/.gitignore
https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/blob/master/.gitignore
https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever/blob/master/.gitignore
https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/blob/master/.gitignore
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manojlds
@RicardoTomasi - What do you mean very specific? Then why do you include .DS_Store which is Mac specific?
Ricardo Tomasi
Specific to the project.
.seed, .csv, .bin, .dat, .pid files are not present in a common app. Just notice how they vary in the given examples - they only have .DS_Store, npm-debug.log and node_modules in common.As a start:
.DS_Store thumbs.db *.log node_modules/ Add your config.json, compiled .js if you're using coffeescript, etc.
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You can do it on the site gitignore.io.
gitignore.io is a web service designed to help you create .gitignore files for your Git repositories. The site has a graphical and command line method of creating a .gitignore for your operating system, programming language, or IDE.
Link to .gitignore only for Node.js.
Video tutorial for the service.
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commonly ignored files in NodeJs(check this link):
# Logs logs *.log npm-debug.log* yarn-debug.log* yarn-error.log* lerna-debug.log* .pnpm-debug.log* # Diagnostic reports (https://nodejs.org/api/report.html) report.[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*.json # Runtime data pids *.pid *.seed *.pid.lock # Directory for instrumented libs generated by jscoverage/JSCover lib-cov # Coverage directory used by tools like istanbul coverage *.lcov # nyc test coverage .nyc_output # Grunt intermediate storage (https://gruntjs.com/creating-plugins#storing-task-files) .grunt # Bower dependency directory (https://bower.io/) bower_components # node-waf configuration .lock-wscript # Compiled binary addons (https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html) build/Release # Dependency directories node_modules/ jspm_packages/ # Snowpack dependency directory (https://snowpack.dev/) web_modules/ # TypeScript cache *.tsbuildinfo # Optional npm cache directory .npm # Optional eslint cache .eslintcache # Optional stylelint cache .stylelintcache # Microbundle cache .rpt2_cache/ .rts2_cache_cjs/ .rts2_cache_es/ .rts2_cache_umd/ # Optional REPL history .node_repl_history # Output of 'npm pack' *.tgz # Yarn Integrity file .yarn-integrity # dotenv environment variable files .env .env.development.local .env.test.local .env.production.local .env.local # parcel-bundler cache (https://parceljs.org/) .cache .parcel-cache # Next.js build output .next out # Nuxt.js build / generate output .nuxt dist # Gatsby files .cache/ # Comment in the public line in if your project uses Gatsby and not Next.js # https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-1#public-directory-support # public # vuepress build output .vuepress/dist # vuepress v2.x temp and cache directory .temp .cache # Docusaurus cache and generated files .docusaurus # Serverless directories .serverless/ # FuseBox cache .fusebox/ # DynamoDB Local files .dynamodb/ # TernJS port file .tern-port # Stores VSCode versions used for testing VSCode extensions .vscode-test # yarn v2 .yarn/cache .yarn/unplugged .yarn/build-state.yml .yarn/install-state.gz .pnp.* 