How to deploy node_modules folder to production server?

I making a very simple website (like pastebin) in PHP (LAMP server). This site uses jquery and bootstrap. I was using bower earlier, but I want to switch to using npm instead.

My directory structure is like this:

• public
  • html
    • index.php
    • node_modules
      • jquery
        • dist
          • jquery.js
        • plus dozens of needless folders
      • bootstrap
        • ...

When I was using bower, I used to upload the whole bower_components folder to my FTP server. My node_modules folder is pretty large and contains hundreds of files and so I'm not sure if I should be uploading it?

I guess I can just upload package.json and run npm install on the command line of my webserver after uploading, but will exposing node_modules folder to the public pose potential security risks?