How to deploy Node.js application with deep node_modules structure on Windows?

Question

I\'ve run into a curious issue - apparently some Node.js module have so deep folder hierarchies that Windows copy command (or PowerShell\'s C

Answer 1

I found one solution from Microsoft Node.js Guidelines.

• Start in a short path (e.g. c:\src)
• > npm install -g rimraf delete files that exceed max_path
• > npm dedupe moves duplicate packages to top-level
• > npm install -g flatten-packages moves all packages to top-level, but can cause versioning issues
• Upgrade to npm@3 which attempts to the make the node_modules folder heirarchy maximally flat.
  • Ships with Node v5
  • Or… > npm install –g npm-windows-upgrade