npx gitignore

I've done this a few times on a live stream and there is always someone unaware of this so I wanted to share.

Assuming you have Node.js installed on your machine, you can run npx gitignore your_language, e.g. npx gitignore node, and it will generate a gitignore file for you for the given language.

Here's a clip from my stream today showing it in action. Maybe you'll find it useful in your next project!

Photo by Gabriel Heinzer on Unsplash

Comments

[Hardeep Kumar]

Hol' up. Wait a minute. It was this simple? Sheesh. -_-

[rxliuli]

I added the sync subcommand to my self-created liuli-cli to synchronize configuration items

$ liuli-cli sync init
? Please select a configuration item to sync...
√ gitignore
√ jest
√ eslint-ts
√ commitlint
√ prettier
√ simplehooks

[Nick Taylor]

[Diego (Relatable Code)]

Useful tip, thanks for sharing!

[Nick Taylor]

[Pranav Karawale]

Nice handy tool so that I don't have to curl the Node.gitignore file everytime 🙌

[Nick Taylor]

[Thomas Bnt ☕]

Badass command 😎

(Also cool to integrate Twitch video in your post)

[Nick Taylor]