VCS是否应跟踪node_modules目录？

Question

I just discovered the power of Grunt and have a very basic question. Grunt creates a directory named node_modules as well as the package.json and the Gruntfile.js files. When I look at Git repositories of other projects , I see that Gruntfile.js and package.json files have been committed, but the node_module directory is not. Why?

What is the best practice concerning the node_modules directory and the other two files?

Answer 1

You must run npm install on production and ignore node_modules in you repository.

node_modules can contain compiled native modules for you platform and server platform can be different, for example.