What should I put in a meteor .gitignore file?

Question

I have a new meteor project. I'm guessing the .meteor dir has a combination of configuration files (needed) and temporary files (not needed).

So what's in your .gitignore?

Answer 1

Your gitignore should also contain:

public/node_modules

And you supplement this with a properly crafted package.json that manages node module dependency installation.

This will necessitate a npm install when installed somewhere new.

Answer 2

Here is what I use with Webstorm and Meteor 1.4 deployed with Mupx.

# Meteor files to ignore now handled by .ignore file within .Meteor folder automatically

# settings file to ignore to protect API keys
settings.json

# MUP / MUPX file to ignore to protect server passwords and sensitive info.
mup.json

# npm package files to ignore
node?modules/
npm-debug.log

# Webstorm IDE files to ignore
.idea/*

# Typing type definition files to ignore. Webstorm uses type definitions for autocomplete even without typescript
typings/*

Answer 3

We use this gitignore, which englobes many IDEs and Meteor, along system files and others.

### WebStorm ###
.idea/

### OSX ###
.DS_Store
.AppleDouble
.LSOverride
# Icon must end with two \r
Icon
# Thumbnails
._*
# Files that might appear on external disk
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
.AppleDB
.AppleDesktop
Network Trash Folder
Temporary Items
.apdisk

### Windows ###
# Windows image file caches
Thumbs.db
ehthumbs.db
# Folder config file
Desktop.ini
# Recycle Bin used on file shares
$RECYCLE.BIN/
# Windows shortcuts
*.lnk

### Linux ###
*~
# KDE directory preferences
.directory

### SublimeText ###
# cache files for sublime text
*.tmlanguage.cache
*.tmPreferences.cache
*.stTheme.cache
# workspace files are user-specific
*.sublime-workspace
# project files should be checked into the repository, unless a significant
# proportion of contributors will probably not be using SublimeText
# *.sublime-project
# sftp configuration file
sftp-config.json

### Node/NPM ###
node_modules
npm-debug.log

### Development ###
dump
mochawesome-reports
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