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

google-app-engine, java, node-modules

Solution

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

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

Problem

`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?

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