diff --git a/packages/eslint-config-airbnb-base/rules/imports.js b/packages/eslint-config-airbnb-base/rules/imports.js
index f3a477b4b5..d8223a33c5 100644
--- a/packages/eslint-config-airbnb-base/rules/imports.js
+++ b/packages/eslint-config-airbnb-base/rules/imports.js
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ module.exports = {
     'import/core-modules': [
     ],
     'import/ignore': [
-      'node_modules',
       '\\.(coffee|scss|css|less|hbs|svg|json)$',
     ],
   },