Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by rplnt 3436 days ago
> like node [...] have figured out how to handle non-global dependencies

Node would be the last place I'd look for a good solution in. Not sure if there was some progress recently, but it was hell some time back. Modules were huge, taking thousands of other modules with them, majority of those being duplicates. There was no deduplication, no version wildcards I believe either. It wouldn't even work with some tools because the path would end up being hundreds of characters long.
2 comments
nilliams 3436 days ago
Since npm 3 (about 18 months ago), the node_modules dir tree is now 'flat' and de-duped (where possible).

There have always been version wildcards as far as I know. Long paths caused by the deeply nested tree were a problem in Windows only, addressed (I believe, I can't find open issues on it) by the flattening in npm 3.

link
jessaustin 3435 days ago
We've spotted someone who uses an OS with arbitrary path limitations...
link