Touche on Huge no. of files for Angular 2

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It's actually not possible due to the way Node looks up dependencies. You could have a situation like:

  node_modules/
    a/
      node_modules/
        c/ (1.0.0)
    b/
      node_modules/
        c/ (1.0.0)
    c/ (2.0.0)

Both a and b depend on c version 1.0.0, but since there's a version 2.0.0 in the root node_modules folder c can't be placed there, and has to be duplicated in a and b's own node_modules folder, otherwise Node couldn't find it for each of them.

ksherlock 10y

It's entirely possible with symbolic links. https://github.com/rstacruz/pnpm

rplnt 10y

You could use links, version in names, ... You'd just have problem to take out one submodule I guess, but I doubt that's a use case anywhere.

RossM 10y

I've built a fairly hacky solution to this before (for a different package manager) - it can be pretty simple:

    node_modules/
        versions/
            a@1.0.0
                node_modules/
                    c -> ../../c@1.0.0
            b@1.0.0
                node_modules/
                    c -> ../../c@1.0.0
            c@1.0.0/
            c@2.0.0/
        a -> versions/a@1.0.0
        b -> versions/b@1.0.0
        c -> versions/c@2.0.0

Touche 10y

Some other people have linked to npm alternatives ied and pnpm which do essentially this.

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