Excluding node_modules with skip_files in a nodejs runtime environment?

[John White]

Hi all

I noticed that every time I ran `gcloud app deploy`, it has to upload a .tgz with all files, including node_modules. AFAIK this is recreated in the server, so it's pointless to upload it. So I added the folder to the exclusion list, and it became way faster.

It's hard to find any doc on this, but shouldn't this folder be already excluded when deploying? Is it a good thing to exclude it?

Thanks

[Steren Giannini]

Hi,

You should use the skip_files attribute of app.yaml to skip the node_modules folder. For example:

skip_files:

  - ^.*node_modules(/.*)?

We are later going to introduce a new mechanism soon, using a .gcloudignore file.

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