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How to exclude many directories of node_modules from parsing for gulp?

I have on my project a modular structure, where in each module there is a directory node_modules. I want to use gulp for automation. Many tasks require parsing directories and I want to exclude node_modules from the available ones. For example, I have the following structures:

node_modules
someFolder / node_modules
xFolder / yFolder / node_modules
aFolder / bFolder / dFolder / node_modules

If I want to exclude node modules for the top level then I specify "!node_modules/**/*" But how can I exclude nested directories of node_modules?

Solution

  • I'm not familiar with gulp for automation, but it looks like it allows the globbing syntax. Have you tried something like "!**/node_modules/**/*" ?