diff --git a/public/doc-shredder/doc-shredder.js b/public/doc-shredder/doc-shredder.js
index 904fc2f59c..100b4c749e 100644
--- a/public/doc-shredder/doc-shredder.js
+++ b/public/doc-shredder/doc-shredder.js
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ function createShredPackage(shredOptions) {
       readFilesProcessor.sourceFiles = [ {
         // Process all candidate files in `src` and its subfolders ...
         include: includeFiles,
+        exclude: ['**/node_modules/**'],
         // When calculating the relative path to these files use this as the base path.
         // So `src/foo/bar.js` will have relative path of `foo/bar.js`
         basePath: options.examplesDir