Workaround to fix #235 (add placeholder inside node_modules)

Author: SteveSandersonMS

.gitignore

@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ npm-debug.log
 # files with that name (https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/1862). So, each template instead has a template_gitignore
 # file which gets renamed after the files are copied. And so any files that need to be excluded in the source
 # repo have to be excluded here.
-/templates/*/node_modules/
+
+# Note that we need to exclude node_modules/** (i.e., subdirs, not the whole of node_modules) because we do need to
+# include the _placeholder.txt files, and can't do that using gitignore exclusion because developers aren't promoted to
+# commit files included that way. This is all a workaround for Workaround for https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices/issues/235
+/templates/*/node_modules/**
 /templates/*/wwwroot/dist/
 .vscode/
+
+# Workaround for https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices/issues/235
+!/templates/*/node_modules/_placeholder.txt

templates/Angular2Spa/node_modules/_placeholder.txt

@@ -184,9 +184,12 @@ ClientBin/
 *.dbproj.schemaview
 *.pfx
 *.publishsettings
-node_modules/
 orleans.codegen.cs
 
+# Workaround for https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices/issues/235
+/node_modules/**
+!/node_modules/_placeholder.txt
+
 # RIA/Silverlight projects
 Generated_Code/
 

templates/Angular2Spa/template_gitignore

@@ -184,9 +184,12 @@ ClientBin/
 *.dbproj.schemaview
 *.pfx
 *.publishsettings
-node_modules/
 orleans.codegen.cs
 
+# Workaround for https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices/issues/235
+/node_modules/**
+!/node_modules/_placeholder.txt
+
 # RIA/Silverlight projects
 Generated_Code/
 

templates/KnockoutSpa/node_modules/_placeholder.txt

@@ -184,9 +184,12 @@ ClientBin/
 *.dbproj.schemaview
 *.pfx
 *.publishsettings
-node_modules/
 orleans.codegen.cs
 
+# Workaround for https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices/issues/235
+/node_modules/**
+!/node_modules/_placeholder.txt
+
 # RIA/Silverlight projects
 Generated_Code/
 

templates/KnockoutSpa/template_gitignore

@@ -184,9 +184,12 @@ ClientBin/
 *.dbproj.schemaview
 *.pfx
 *.publishsettings
-node_modules/
 orleans.codegen.cs
 
+# Workaround for https://github.com/aspnet/JavaScriptServices/issues/235
+/node_modules/**
+!/node_modules/_placeholder.txt
+
 # RIA/Silverlight projects
 Generated_Code/