Please allow unignoring files or folders for deployments. This issue was a pain, especially when Vercel broke my site without warning (how rude!): Did Vercel stop serving node_modules folders with static websites? opened 01:23AM - 01 Nov…

Hi @anshumanb I believe I already described the problem clearly. The problem is that Vercel deletes node_modules before deployment as per above. I do not want Vercel to delete node_modules.

Thanks for your reply. I’ll share this feedback with our team.

Thank you! This caused a headache because at some point Vercel was deploying node_modules, but then Vercel decided not to include node_modules in the deployment which broke my app. I then had to come up with a workaround (for example rename node_moduels to module and use that instead, which brought…

Hi @trusktr , thanks for the detailed explanation. We don’t have a timeline or ETA on this feature request. I’ll keep this thread posted whenever we have an update. I’ll not mark it as solved. Thanks for volunteering to help but the code is not in a public repo so we’ll have to wait for the team to…

Unignoring files for static deployments (feature request)

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anshumanb (Anshuman Bhardwaj) May 13, 2025, 8:14am 2

Hi @trusktr, please share your public repo or a minimal reproducible example. That will let us all work together from the same code to figure out what’s going wrong.

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