Simple and modular builder for .gitignore files using a variety of templates.

Only a handful of templates are supported at the moment.

A live demo is available and is available for public use.

To use this tool, browse to the Live Gitignore Builder, select your application, IDE, and environment, and copy/paste the generated .gitignore.

Please pay attention to preserve any custom declarations needed. Just look for the

################################################################################
####                                Custom Directives
################################################################################

block of text and place them after in your final destination file.

Prefer to run it on your own server? Wonderful! The following dependencies are required to run this application:

• A web server capable of serving static content
• A web browser capable of running Javascript
• .... a coffee?

That's it. There is no nodejs required, no compiling required, no anything. The only hard dependency is nodeca's yaml parser, which is included already.

ignores/ contains all gitignore files, plus a registry file written in YAML to provide lookups.
The javascript retrieves this file on page load and parses it for everything. Namely, the following keys are used for each record:

• title - Title to display to the user
• file - Relative path in ignores/ of the .gitignore fragment
• desc - Optional description to provide the user with more context
• ref - Optional reference / @see link to include in the generated file

gitignore fragments are broken up in multiple sections, app, env, ide, os, and z_other. (Results are rendered alphabetically, so other is z_other to keep it at the end.)

Merge requests are always welcome, please try to maintain a clean commit though.

Something broke? Submit a bug report and I may get around to it. Please be detailed and include browser, environment, or other useful information to replicate the problem.

Heads up, I have absolutely zero expectation that Internet Explorer can run this, so don't even try.

Since this is a simple javascript application, it can very easily be embedded into a CMS or web framework of your choosing. The important pieces to remember are:

in the head:

<script src="assets/js/js-yaml.js"></script>
<script src="assets/js/gitignore-builder.js"></script>

in the body:

<section id="selection-area"></section>
<textarea id="render-area" readonly="readonly"></textarea>

in the foot:

<script>IgnoreRegistry.Run('ignores/');</script>

The paths will need to be correct for your environment, but that's the gist of it.

Licensed under MIT, do with what you wish, though please try to keep attribution.

The underlying logic of this application relies on language-agnostic flat files, so a server component could be created to provide a CLI-friendly lookup.