Force Dropbox to truly ignore node_modules using Apple Script (macOS only)

_dropbox_node_prep.scpt

# Prep dropbox to ignore 'node_modules' in a node project
# 1. Move this script to your node project root;
# 2. Delete the existing 'node_modules' folder;
# 3. Run this script;
# 4. `npm install` as normal;
# 5. Enjoy!

tell application "Finder"
  set current_path to container of (path to me) as alias
  make new folder at current_path with properties {name:"node_modules"}
  set current_path to POSIX path of current_path
end tell

delay 1

# do shell script "xattr -w com.dropbox.ignored 1 " & current_path & "./node_modules"
do shell script "xattr -w com.dropbox.ignored 1 " & quoted form of (POSIX path of current_path) & "./node_modules"

This is great @craigerskine - thank you for sharing.

I noticed that it won't work for project paths like this one on my system though:
/Users/johndoe/Dropbox/1 - Cordova iPhone Apps/My App/

The specific error is:
xattr: No such file: Cordova/./node_modules (1)r: xattr: No such file: '/Users/johndoe/Dropbox/1

Do you know if it's the space(s) or the hyphen causing the problem, and in either case how to fix?

@craigerskine I got it to work by changing line 16 to:
do shell script "xattr -w com.dropbox.ignored 1 " & quoted form of (POSIX path of current_path) & "./node_modules"

Credit to this SO post:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/200505

Thanks again! Very useful gist.

@derp-derp-derp
Thanks for the contribution, I truly appreciate it.