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While working on a project, there may be certain folders that you don't want git to track; these can be .envfiles, node_modulesfolders, etc.

These folders are intended for use only on the local computer and should not be shared with other computers. This may be because node_modulesthe folders may vary in size from a few megabytes to several gigabytes.

While working, we certainly don't want to track node_modulesmany changes to a folder. Therefore, we can use various methods to ignore the folder.

`node_modules`Ignore folders in the root folder

Let's take the following folder structure:

.
|
├── .gitignore
├── node_modules
└── src
    └── index.html

Here, we need to set up our project so that we do not include folders tracked by git node_modules, this can be .gitignoredone by creating a file. .gitignoreThe files/folders mentioned in will not be tracked by git. So to ignore node_modules, .gitignorethe contents inside the folder should be as follows:

node_modules

`node_modules`Ignore all folders that exist in the entire project

To demonstrate this, let's take the following project with the following folder structure:

.
├── backend
│   ├── index.html
│   └── node_modules
├── frontend
│   ├── index.html
│   └── node_modules
└── .gitignore

frontendThere are two folders in the and backendfolders and only one file in the project root. To ignore both folders, the contents of the folders must be:node_modules.gitignorenode_modules.gitignore

**/node_modules

Here, two consecutive asterisks **followed by a slash /are matched in all directories to match the folders within the frontendand folders. Hence, this will make Git ignore both the and folders.backendnode_modulesnode_modules

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