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

Question

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_9hd1yb · Accepted Answer

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