Node npm windows file paths are too long to install packages

Question

Situation

I want to use gulp and related front-end tool chains in Windows-hosted development environments. I\'m hitting a wall trying to use gulp pl

Answer 1

Allan -

From the github issue you linked,

npm will add dedupe-at-install-time by default. This is significantly more feasible than Node's module system changing, but it is still not exactly trivial, and involves a lot of reworking of some long-entrenched patterns.

This is (finally) currently in the works at npm, going by the name multi-stage-install, and is targeted for npm@3. npm development lead Forrest Norvell is going to spend some time running on Windows in the new year, so please do create windows-related issues on the npm issue tracker < https://github.com/npm/npm/issues >