Up to this point, I have solved a lot of little things in my workflow when it comes to syncing fonts for example, and not only synced but activated across computers thanks to a little program called RightFont an intelligent and a really cool font manager that deals with live sets by watching specific folders. This made working across computers with these services a nightmare. These folders caused me so many problems syncing because they usually contain 10s of thousands of files and syncing them sometimes causes a complete mess with services like Dropbox or Google Drive taking hours or even days to sync everything (if I’m lucky) if I removed the node_modules files or changed them things just keep getting messy (not to mention it kills your computers). One of the main pain points in using Dropbox for code are little small folders called node_modules and composer’s vendor. Using Google Drive or Dropbox works great for this, setting up syncing on both machines, however one of the biggest problems when trying to sync my development files was the complete lack of “filtering” or something like. Most developers use Github or Bitbucket repositories to sync codebases across computers and servers however these services are not meant for syncing larger files such as Photoshop or many other types.Īs someone who works at home on a desktop Mac and my Mac Book Pro when I’m on the go and travel, I needed a good solution to sync my projects, fonts, designs and other things seamlessly between the computers without doing much work and having it automated so I can simply work on my desktop computer and at the moment’s notice pick up my laptop and continue where I left off. Thanks to the improvements to Dropbox, Google Drive and other services working across several computers with the same code base and files have improved by leaps and bounds. Solving painful syncing of node_modules when using Dropbox (or Google Drive)ĭeveloping for the web and having smart up-to-date syncing between multiple computers has improved quite a bit over the course of last several years.

Dropbox not syncing docs in folder