How to exclude node_modules from filter search?

[osenvosem]

I have both readme.md placed in root and node_modules in the .gitignore file. Filter doesn't find the readme.md in the root but it finds all such filed in the node_modules folder. That's illogical. How to fix that?

[madelaney]

If you're using the / command to search, then you should have to so something like:

(shortened for brevity)

require('neo-tree').setup({
  filtered_items = {
    visible = false,
    hide_gitignored = true,
  }       
})

[osenvosem]

I already had this

[osenvosem]

In order to illustrate the issue

How to make the plugin to not search in ignored node_modules folder?