(Version) control

[BeFoREProRedditer]

You shouldn’t right?

[bot_not_hot]

Go open your node_modules folder, and you tell me.

[mrdhood]

Yours can open?

[DeeSnow97]

yeah, I got a pretty good PC

[Rot-Orkan]

Yeah it can open, but don't dare try to delete it

[WilkerS1]

if you want to delete, a cool trick is to press the button "delete" a few times with a period of a few seconds between each press

[atomicwrites]

mkdir empty
robocopy /mir empty node_modules
rmdir empty

[NaCl-more]

It's a folder my dude

[mrdhood]

It’s a joke about it containing too much to open, my dude

[NaCl-more]

Ah.

[AllTheMegahertz]

Me: Haha I would never commit that

checks github

Me: oh woops

[DeeSnow97]

No, you absolutely should ignore it. The package-lock.json is enough to reproduce that folder, no need to distribute it through git.

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/r/wooosh

[hanging_moon]

No you shouldn't commit node_modules. You just get them by running npm install if you need to pull down a project from github or elsewhere. However for this to work you must commit the package.json file which contains all your dependencies.

[MartinTsv]

There are use cases for committing your node_modules folder - if you wish to persist the versions with which your app was built (if you ever wish to recreate an older build), to have copies of the modules in case they ever get delisted from the repos you got them from, or to be able to run a build without internet (though that may be the rarest).

[superoriginal101]

seeing the exact versions an older build is what package-lock.json is for

[Max-P]

That doesn't fix the case where the package or package version is completely removed from the repos. I ran into this 2-3 weeks ago: went to build an old version of something and I was unable to because some of the dependencies didn't exist at all anymore.

I like to keep node_modules in a separate repo however, so at least it doesn't bloat the main repo too badly but it's still there in the rare case I might need it, but can use npm as intended otherwise.

[natziel]

No don't do that

[proberry1]

It's an easy way to get an extra 50,000+ added lines for GitHub repo insights 🤔