.dockerignore file contents

[vishnubalaji]

Hello! Shouldn't we include .ebextensions, .elasticbeanstalk and .git along with node_modules to the .dockerignore file as these aren't used by the docker container image and are specific to only elastic beanstalk and git?

[Rvanmech]

Hi Vishnu, you are right, technically those files are not used by Docker whatsoever, so they do not need to be included with the Dockerbuild, and we can safely add them to the .dockerignore file.
The node_modules directory is the biggest directory, so that is the most important, since that will drastically increase the size of the Docker image.