add .npmignore

[CaryLandholt]

During npm publish, certain files and directories can be ignored from the package.
See https://npmjs.org/doc/developers.html#Keeping-files-out-of-your-package.
This reduces the package size.
Package consumers need only the minimum files necessary to execute the package functionality.

Keeping

• AUTHORS
• CHANGELOG
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• LICENSE-MIT

Ignoring

• docs
• test
• .jshintrc
• .travis.yml
• Gruntfile.js

[shama]

Hey @CaryLandholt I really appreciate these PRs. This is something I've been meaning to do with the contrib plugins. I just want to check in with the rest of the team so hold off on these for now until we get a response on this issue: gruntjs/gruntjs.com#65

[CaryLandholt]

You bet - thanks!

[XhmikosR]

Alternatively, you could specify the files to install in package.json, files section. This way, you have one less file, and the same result.

[shama]

@XhmikosR Good idea, I think that is the way we are currently leaning. Just giving that issue a bit more time for other core devs to respond.

[CaryLandholt]

@XhmikosR, are you suggesting to use the files array configuration inside the package.json file?
This sounds like the inverse of .npmignore (include files vs. exclude files). Is this correct?

[XhmikosR]

Yeah, that's what I was suggesting. It is the inverse but the result is the same.

[vladikoff]

@shama what was the ignore pattern that we agreed upon? was it to only include LICENSE and tasks ?
Should @CaryLandholt update this to address that?

[shama]

If @CaryLandholt wants to address it that would be great. Otherwise I'll write a script that does this for all the contrib tasks soon. See: gruntjs/gruntjs.com#65 (comment)

[vladikoff]

Hey @CaryLandholt if you have time, could you updated this PR based on gruntjs/gruntjs.com#65 ?

[vladikoff]

Seems inactive, closing. This should be addressed in the future script across all contrib plugins