Can a custom directory name be used instead of 'node_modules' when installing node packages?

Question

I create a package.json, I run npm install, it works alright. It creates a node_modules directory in my root folder (which I can chang

Answer 1

Yarn you can easily achieve this by adding a file called '.yarnrc' with contents like this:

# ./.yarnrc
--modules-folder lib

Next time you run 'yarn' it will create the lib folder and install packages into there instead of into node_modules.

Now if only we could get 'npm install' to be as clever.