Exclude some paths while building for production

[arajajyothibabu]

I came across this requirement where I have to exclude some folders from public directory in production build (npm run build).

Is there any option to exclude some paths say

build: "react-scripts build --exclude=public/data",

Or else any other way around to achieve this ?

Thank you

[gaearon]

You can do this manually, e.g.

"build": "react-scripts build && rm -rf build/data"

But I would say if something isn’t public, it shouldn’t go into the public directory.

[arajajyothibabu]

@gaearon Thanks Dan, but where should I keep this data folder in order to have this on root during development. I mean http://localhost:3000/data/someFile ?

[gaearon]

Yes, in this case the first approach I suggested (doing it manually) will work fine.

[ydsood]

This is an older thread, however, an exception to this rule

But I would say if something isn’t public, it shouldn’t go into the public directory.

is the .svn folder for svn repositories. (Please don't yell at me for using svn over git)