compress theme project to zip file

[Hsins]

As we know that any wp-theme could be compressed to a *.zip file for uploading to WordPress site. Would tailpress support the compressing feature?

It would be best practice that finally *.zip shouldn't contain the following files or folders:

• node_modules
• resources
• package.json, package-lock.json, postcss.config.js, tailwind.config.js

There're two approaches for reference:

1. remove or exclude those files when compressing.
2. change current directory structure as the structure of gregsullivan/_tw

First approach is compatible for the current project but the second approach is more clean and engineering because it follow the principle of SoC (Separation of concerns).

[jeffreyvr]

You can also create a zip through git. Example:

git archive --format zip --output your-theme.zip main

Where main is the branch name. This should already exclude folders/files that are ignored by git, such as node_modules. Then the other files could be added to the .gitattributes file - and then they will also be excluded from the zip.

[ethan-tqa]

It's probably good to add this to README

[justingolden21]

I was using something like this (work in progress)

@ECHO OFF
tar.exe --exclude=node_modules -a -cf my-theme.zip my-theme
PAUSE

[justingolden21]

Tar comes with Windows 10+