Wsrtjtyk

I've got a maven project that builds a angular application as its webapp part.

Tree:

 +---main

 |   +---java

 |   ---webapp

 |       +---e2e

 |       |   ---src

 |       +---src

 |       |   +---app

 |       |   |   +---folder

 |       |   |   +---shared

 |       |   |   ---tests

 |       |   +---assets

 |       |   |   ---images

 |       |   +---environments

 |       |   +---styles

 |       |   ---temp

 |       ---WEB-INF

 ---test

POM:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"

         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>



    <artifactId>app-client-webapp</artifactId>

    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <name>APP-CLIENT-WEBAPP</name>



    <properties>

        <war.source.dir>target/dist</war.source.dir>

        <war.contextpath>app</war.contextpath>

        <ng.base-href>/${war.contextpath}/app-client-webapp/</ng.base-href>

    </properties>



    <build>

        <finalName>app-client</finalName>



        <plugins>

            <plugin>

                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>

                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>

                <version>${version.plugin.exec-maven-plugin}</version>



                <executions>

                    <execution>

                        <id>exec-npm-install</id>

                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>

                        <configuration>

                            <executable>npm</executable>

                            <workingDirectory>src/main/webapp</workingDirectory>

                            <arguments>

                                <argument>install</argument>

                            </arguments>

                        </configuration>

                        <goals>

                            <goal>exec</goal>

                        </goals>

                    </execution>



                    <execution>

                        <id>angular-cli install</id>

                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>

                        <configuration>

                            <workingDirectory>src/main/webapp</workingDirectory>

                            <executable>npm</executable>

                            <arguments>

                                <argument>install</argument>

                                <argument>--no-optional</argument>

                                <argument>-g</argument>

                                <argument>@angular/cli</argument>

                            </arguments>

                        </configuration>

                        <goals>

                            <goal>exec</goal>

                        </goals>

                    </execution>



                    <execution>

                        <id>exec-npm-ng-build</id>

                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>

                        <configuration>

                            <workingDirectory>src/main/webapp/src</workingDirectory>

                            <executable>ng</executable>

                            <arguments>

                                <argument>build</argument>

                                <argument>--no-progress</argument>

                                <argument>--base-href=${ng.base-href}</argument>

                                <argument>--output-path=${project.basedir}/${war.source.dir}/${artifactId}</argument>

                            </arguments>

                        </configuration>

                        <goals>

                            <goal>exec</goal>

                        </goals>

                    </execution>



                </executions>

            </plugin>



            <!-- Build WAR -->

            <plugin>

                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>

                <version>${version.plugin.maven-war-plugin}</version>

                <configuration>

                    <warSourceDirectory>${war.source.dir}</warSourceDirectory>

                    <webXml>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>

                    <webResources>

                        <resource>

                            <directory>${war.source.dir}</directory>

                            <includes>

                                <include>**/*</include>

                            </includes>

                        </resource>

                        <resource>

                            <directory>src/main/webapp/WEB-INF</directory>

                            <targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>

                        </resource>



                    </webResources>

                </configuration>

            </plugin>

        </plugins>

    </build>



    <dependencies>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.tuckey</groupId>

            <artifactId>urlrewritefilter</artifactId>

            <version>4.0.3</version>

        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

</project>

the problem now is on building it mvn clean install it creates an folder "node_modules" in the webapp sub directory.

In there, it seems there are all the node modules that are needed for building it.

But this is getting indexed by my IDE (IntelliJ) and is consuming performance.

Is there a way to move this folder to another directory (like the java target folder) to have it not indexed?

In the past there was the dist folder as well in the same folder but with the ng arguments this could be changed to the target dir.

Changing the working directory simply makes it fail.

Any Ideas?