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How do I tell Codeship to ignore the node_modules folder?

I am deploying to AWS EB from Codeship. Codeship does an npm install to run the tests. It them bundles everything and sends it to AWS, where another npm install happens.

How do I prevent Codeship from bundling my node_modules folder?

Solution

  • The integrated Elastic Beanstalk deployment is based on copying the files over to AWS, so if you want to "ignore" a folder, add a script based deployment before the Elastic Beanstalk deployment and remove the folders you don't want to copy over.

    See https://github.com/codeship/scripts/blob/master/deployments/elastic_beanstalk.sh for a script that is very similar (though not quite identical) to the commands run for the integrated deployment.

    And see https://documentation.codeship.com/basic/builds-and-configuration/deployment-pipelines/#multi-step-deployment-pipelines for a bit more information on deployment pipelines containing multiple individual steps.