diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 472dba8fa..9b9b981e0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ docs/build/
 
 docker/db/data
 
+# in this development bundle, we want to ignore directories related to a real app
+assets/*
+migrations/*
+templates/*
+translations/*
+
 ###> symfony/framework-bundle ###
 /.env.local
 /.env.local.php