example folder always included during install of my package even when blacklisted in .npmignore and excluded in package.json files

Question

I created a react library and have my repo in gitlab and installed it using git+http://gitlab.com/[library-name]

I have an example folder to test my react components. I want my example folder to be in my gitlab repository but I want to exclude it in my package files (tarball) during installation.

This is my .gitignore

tmp/*
node_modules
.DS_Store
.sass-cache
update
*.log
.vscode/

This is my .npmignore

tmp/*
node_modules
.DS_Store
.sass-cache
update
*.log
.vscode/
src
example

This is my package.json

  "files": [
     "bin",
     "src",
     "public"
  ],

So as you can see I have listed the example folder in my .npmignore and and package.json listed all the directories I want to include in my tarball but upon installation I still have get the example folder present in the installation files.

Answer 1

If you have it registered in .npmignore, it will ignore it every time you install it, therefore, most likely, you will continue to see the folders of a previous version, try removing the package and installing it again.