Hide solution files in node_modules from Team Explorer

Question

Having moved from bower to npm in an ASP.Net Core MVC project that is under TFVC source control I now have an additional solution appearing in Team Explorer in Visual Studio 2017 that is in my node_modules folder:

.\node_modules\node-sass\src\libsass\win\libsass.sln

How can I stop this solution appearing in Team Explorer? node_modules is already in my .tfignore file and that folder/solution is not in source control.

Answer 1

This can be done by simply hiding the node_modules folder.

I saw this as a side-effect when I was following instructions here, hiding the folder reduces the load times and memory footprint for Visual Studio as it doesn't try and preparse all the modules.

As an alternative and a lighter touch @kakusan pointed out that only the solution file needs to be hidden. Be aware that this change may not be kept if NPM for some reason replaces the file.