How do you ignore folders when pushing from local to wpengine?

How do you ignore folders when pushing from local to wpengine? I want to ignore all files in my node_modules folder when uploading but can’t figure out how to do that. I see there are other folks trying to figure this out as well on the board. Please help.

Thanks!

I am also interested in this - I use npm and it pushes everything

@betalocal @levine have you tried to use the .wpe-pull-ignore and .wpe-push-ignore files? Add a reference for node_modules in the push file and give it a try.

Interesting. While Im not working in this scenario, could this be used to ignore the download of the mu-plugins and some that WPE for examples requires to run? They (still) cause issues and warning on a local site. Maybe this could be used to mitigate the problem?

@sebastian its worth a try! I havent dug very deep into this yet.

Where should one put these ignore-files?

in the /app/public directory. basically the root directory of your WP install.

You also need to initialize your git repository in this directory too.