Node_modules: The Truth Revealed

Now that we’re all happily leveraging npm with our Meteor apps, let’s sit back and enjoy a bit of node_modules research …

I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

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While that is certainly taking the piss, it actually adresses an issue I had right from the start:

Dependencies as sub-directories in the dependant’s directory.

Whoever thought this to be a good idea really needs to have his head examined.

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Why? I like my dependency trees long and hard to delete. Oh no, I didn’t…

Yeah, it’s satire. Doesn’t NPM 3 use references instead of nesting now anyway?

Didn’t realise how right this was till I read the rest of the comments… gotta love those serious replies :sweat_smile:

Also: https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/3641 :sunglasses:

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