I use this always before backing up my ~code dir:
find . -name "node_modules" -type d -prune -exec rm -rf '{}' +
find . -name "node_modules" -type d -prune -exec rm -rf '{}' +
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Five+ years with node and that process still makes me nervous.
--progress \
--human-readable \
--exclude node_modules \
~/dev \
/Volumes/[foo]