I’ve recently been playing with Foundation, Sass, and Grunt. And while each of these are powerful tools in their own right, they are quick to clutter up a project.

Grunt creates a node_modules directory while Sass creates a .sass-cache directory.

But don’t worry, because lucky users of Sublime Text have a simple fix.

Add .sass-cache and node_modules to Folder Excludes List

To exclude a directory from showing up in Sublime’s search and in the sidebar, all you need to do is add it to the folder_exclude_patterns key in your user preferences.

To do this:

• Click Sublime Text → Preferences → Settings – User
• Add the snippet below

{
"folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS", ".sass-cache", "node_modules"],
}

This line of code should ignore the .sass-cache and node_modules directories as well as common source control directories.