Ignore "node_modules" from deployment in Google App Engine Java Project

Question

Google App Engine java project uses node modules for grunt tasks which is used to build the front end. After we run grunt built, it gives the dist folder to be deployed.

We have following folder structure

myproject
   src/
   war/
      app/
      dist/
      node_modules/
      Gruntfile.js
      WEB-INF/

We do not want to deploy node-modules directory. I have add following in appengine-web.xml

<static-files>
    <exclude path="/node_modules/*.*" />
</static-files>

But it DOES NOT work. How to exclude them from deployment?

Answer 1

Using resource-files without '.' worked for me.

    <resource-files>
        <exclude path="/node_modules/**" />
    </resource-files>