I had a folder for a particular set of Web Applications projects grouped together under one repository, instead of having separate repositories per project, below is my illustration.
lets say i had 5 web projects in one repository prefixed by _1, _2, or _3. and each of these projects have their individual dependencies inside the node_modules folder.
with just one .gitignorefile
repo/WebApp_1/node_modules/*/*/*.js
repo/WebApp_2/*/node_modules/*/*/*/*.js
repo/WebApp_3/*/*/node_modules/*/*/*/*/*.js
repo/WebApp_4/*/*/*/node_modules/*/*.js
repo/WebApp_5/*/*/*/*/*/node_modules/*/*.js
.gitignore //just one gitignore file here.
I initially thought i could use the parent .gitignore file to restrict all node_modules directorys withing the sub directories.
After googling and i figured out that you could have each folder with its individual .gitignore folder to solve the issue.
repo/WebApp_1/ .gitignore
repo/WebApp_2/ .gitignore
repo/WebApp_3/ .gitignore
repo/WebApp_4/ .gitignore
repo/WebApp_5/ .gitignore
this approach worked for me, so i want to know if anyone has a better alternative and a centralized way of achieving this i would be glad to adhere to it.
Thanks.
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