there are a lot of well known directories that could be applied here

I'm not sure about this - I mean: node_modules is very very well-known. I can't recall any other directory that well known. That makes it special to me.

I'm pretty sure you can solve this problem by moving the folder out of templates/ in the meantime.

@appaydin please tell us why you didn't do this in the first place?

The right approach in my opinion would be adding a new option to exclude directories (e.g. bundles/ by default) and/or files, using some kind of glob/pattern.

That's a lot of additional complexity for a rare case. Excluding just node_modules would save us from that complexity. That's a significant benefit.

#34142 is far from being solved at all: "non-template files" is undefined. I wouldn't consider this a viable alternative solution in the near term...

I agree, I would also consider this a rare case, that's why I'm against to add more directories arbitrarily to the hardcoded exclusion list and go ahead with workarounds.

I still don't think this use case (having the node_modules/ inside the Twig's templates/ directory) is enough legit and common to exclude it.

Although I don't feel comfortable telling people where they should put their directories/files due to a problem generated by the framework. That's why also I would want do something about it.

Keeping the front-end of the site in a single directory does not disturb the theme structure. There are different themes created with Vue, and you cannot move the node_modules directory to a different location.

In order to get node_modules into a different directory, we have to split the theme structure into two.

Alternative options are possible, but the directory structure becomes more complex.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21818701/can-a-custom-directory-name-be-used-instead-of-node-modules-when-installing-no

The right approach in my opinion would be adding a new option to exclude directories (e.g. bundles/ by default) and/or files, using some kind of glob/pattern.

That's a lot of additional complexity for a rare case. Excluding just node_modules would save us from that complexity. That's a significant benefit.

Please, let's discuss it here #34416, I don't think there's much additional complexity to it.

👎 for me

Closing then, thanks for proposing @appaydin