How do you ignore node_modules and other files before zipping project and pushing to AWS EB?

[Isaac Weber]

I am using bitbucket pipelines to push to AWS elastic beanstalk. 

The first step in my pipeline looks like this:

- step:
   name: "Build and Test"
   script:
     - npm install
     - npm run build
     - zip application.zip -r * .[^.]*

AWS beanstalk wants the entire application to be zipped. However that is adding the node_modules and other unnecessary files to the zip. How would I ignore these before zipping the project? 

[Isaac Weber · Accepted solution]

I was able to do:

- zip application.zip -r * .[^.]* -x *.git* -x bitbucket-pipelines.yml -x node_modules/\* -x README.md

 to exclude the stuff I didn't want