Committing our code into Git

We have finished bootstrapping our project by setting up an HTTP server and enabling ourselves to write in ES6. So, let's actually commit this block of code into Git.

Note that we could have created a new commit each time we added a new script, or integrated with a new tool, but because the bootstrapping of a project can be considered as one logical unit, we're committing all of that into one commit.

Also, note that we are not going to be creating a dev branch just yet, as bootstrapping a project is not considered to be a "feature." Remember that branches are here to help us separate our commits by business domains; if branching provides no benefit for us, then it's better to be pragmatic, rather than dogmatic.

Let's run git status to see which files we can track in our Git repository:

$ git status
Untracked files:
  .babelrc
  .eslintrc.json
  .nvmrc
  dist/
  node_modules/
  package.json
  src/
  yarn.lock

The list of files listed by the git status command includes the node_modules/ and dist/ directories, both of which do not constitute the core logic of our application. Furthermore, they can be regenerated from our source code—node_modules/ from the package.json and yarn.lock files, and dist/ from the src/ directory. Moreover, the node_modules/ directory can be very large, as it includes a copy of all third-party libraries we are depending on in our application. Therefore, let's make sure the node_modules/ and dist/ directories are not tracked in our Git repository.

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