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It should be excluded from git but you will need that folder if you want to gulp again (locally).
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Mar 3, 2016
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Can I delete node_modules after using Gulp ?
The laravel application file size is only about 34MB. When I tried to use gulp for combining my assets. the size of my application is now 200++ MB.
After running the npm install command, I found that it had created a file node_modules in my laravel application. And its is about 160 MB. Can I delete it that folder after combining my assets or not, I should let it be there ?
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@bashy thanks you. In production, If I delete, wouldn't it break my application ?
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Level 80
@hero21 You’ll need the contents of the node_modules directory to run any gulp commands, but if you’re deploying and then running gulp to build your assets, you could theoretically delete your node_modules directory.
Even better, have a build server that does this and then uploads only the necessary, generated files.
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@martinbean I know this is old, but is it advisable to .gitignore the node_modules folder? I'm setting up webpack and now I have 24,000 + files in my node_modules file.
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@edgeMD Definitely. The node_modules directory should be ignored just like your vendor directory should be.
The default .gitignore file in Laravel has the node_modules directory already ignored on the first line (https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/.gitignore#L1) so you shouldn’t be committing its contents to your source control repository.
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It's not really a good practice to keep no modules in the git repository. #gitignore file To Remove node_modules Folder Create gitignore Remove node_modules
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