How can I whitelist a single file in a directory in .npmignore?
Recommendation: whitelist instead of blacklist
Answering the use case, I would instead recommend explicitly white listing what you want to publish with the files
entry in package.json
, rather than blacklisting with .npmignore
, as that makes it is much more likely that you will not accidentally publish the wrong files. See also: https://medium.com/@jdxcode/for-the-love-of-god-dont-use-npmignore-f93c08909d8d
Here's a concrete example package which looks a bit like:
{
"files": [
"gitignore",
"cirodown",
"cirodown.js",
"cirodown.embed.min.css",
"cirodown.local.min.css",
"cirodown.min.css",
"index.js",
"main.liquid.html",
"main.scss",
"nodejs.js"
],
}
Yes, it is working using glob patterns : https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/developers#keeping-files-out-of-your-package
But I would have a different approach :
dist/*
dist/.*
!dist/file.js
in order to no ignore the whole folder but it's content (the 2nd line may not be required).