Can't seem to push my a folder within my directory to github

Question

I've tried so many different things

but my client folder never seems to want to push

My attempts:

git rm -rf --cached client

git add client

I then push and it says everything is up to date.

I've tried

git add *

git commit

and again everything is up to date when I push.

The client folder is a create-react-app, I assume git will also ignore the /node_modules within it, or this causing it issues? aka do I have to setup a different repository for the client?

My gitignore file:

# See https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/ for more about ignoring files.

# dependencies
/node_modules
/.pnp
.pnp.js

# testing
/coverage

# production
/build

# misc
.DS_Store
.env.local
.env.development.local
.env.test.local
.env.production.local

npm-debug.log*
yarn-debug.log*
yarn-error.log*

Answer 1

Solved (ironically after I post the question):

Because the client is another create-react-app with a node_modules folder I never noticed it hanging when I tried to git add client . The solution was simple, edit the .gitignore file and add /client/node_modules and re-adding the folder. After that, the push went successfully.