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

If you are OK with installing it globally this could be a work-around:

You can adjust the path where npm is installing the global modules to something very short (usually it is: c:\users\\{username}\AppData\Roaming\npm\npm_modules) which already takes a lot of characters.

To adjust it see here: Change default global installation directory for node.js modules in Windows?

If you adjust it to, e.g., c:\n\ in some cases it might solve the issue.