Those are easy to exclude and so long as you `npm rebuild` on deploy they'll be 
overwritten anyway.

This is used as a best practice by quite a few people, people still tweet this 
article I wrote out every month and I wrote it's more than 2 years old. 
http://www.futurealoof.com/posts/nodemodules-in-git.html

-Mikeal

On Dec 19, 2013, at 2:37PM, Brian Lalor <[email protected]> wrote:

> That’s a terrible idea.  The simplest reason it’s a terrible idea is that 
> binaries built for one platform will be checked in.  ie developing on OS X 
> and deploying on Linux.
> 
> On Dec 19, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Mikeal Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> +1
>> 
>> On Dec 18, 2013, at 12:41PM, Tim Caswell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you want this level of static dependencies you can check in your deps 
>>> into node_modules in your git tree or use git submodules in there.  Git 
>>> does guarantee that the thing you point to can't be changed because the 
>>> hash *is* the hash of the content.  If anything changes, the hash changes.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Brian Lalor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Dec 18, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Richard Marr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm working on an app where security is an issue, and among the (many) 
>>>> things that I'm frothingly paranoid about is the possibility of malicious 
>>>> (or more likely just untested) code somehow getting into our app, even 
>>>> though we're using shrink-wrapped versions. It means we'll have to be much 
>>>> more careful with the way we proxy the npm registry. 
>>> 
>>> I’d like to know this, as well.  One of the guarantees made by the Maven 
>>> central repository is that artifacts (packages) can check in, but they can 
>>> never check out.  I frankly don’t think NPM provides this type of 
>>> assurance, but it should.  Otherwise the only way an organization can trust 
>>> packages is to run their own repository.
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