How can I configure git, so that node_modules can be versioned locally but ignored when pushing?

Question

How can I configure git, so that node_modules can be versioned locally but ignored when pushing? Is there a possibility?

Why: Different packaging systems (e.g. npm/yarn/..) access node_modules and sometimes some packages get corrupted. We want to monitor, what the tools change exactly. And node_modules should not be pushed onto the development server.

Answer 1

It is not possible.

What you can do is exclude node_modules from the Git repository and create a new Git repository within node_modules

Answer 2

You can define the following structure:

/project
/my_node_modules

• Create new repository in my_node_modules by git init
• Change your default node_modules location to folder /my_node_modules using https://stackoverflow.com/a/14867050/637589