Understanding Refine's .cursorignore File For AI-Driven Development
.cursorignore` in Refine codebase excludes files from AI features & indexing, similar to `.gitignore`, but with a best-effort approach. It's used to prevent sensitive secrets and proprietary code access by AI.
In this article, we will review the file, .cursorignore, in Refine codebase. Refine is an open-source React framework to build internal tools. We are familiar with .gitignore but let’s learn what .cursorignore file is about. Cursor Cursor is the AI code editor built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI. Okay, so how’s having a .cursorignore file helping? Let’s look at the documentation. Cursor provides two different ignore files to control how files are handled: .cursorignore: Makes a best-effort attempt to exclude files from both AI feat...