npm install without symlinks option not working

Question

I setup a development environment with Windows 8 and Ubuntu as a virtual machine. For that I use VirtualBox.

I also manage to create a shared folder in VirtualBox.

Answer 1

The NPM docs about parameter "--no-bin-links" say:

will prevent npm from creating symlinks for any binaries the package might contain.

Which will just cause NPM to not create links in the node_modules/.bin folder. I also searched for a way to prevent NPM from creating symlinks when using npm install ../myPackage, but can't find any solution...

Update: The npm support team said this will reproduce the old behaviour (no symbolic links):

npm install $(npm pack  | tail -1)

Works for me in git-bash on Windows 10.