lkpwireless.blogg.se - Is there a program comparable to long path tool

Although this approach will flatten the folder structure and prevent loading of duplicate modules, this workaround feels unnatural. As the npm ecosystem grows, nested dependency chains will become too long and this workaround become unusable.Īdding ALL dependences to the root folder's package.json file was mentioned in one thread I came across. Symbolic Links can be used to shorten file paths, but these are kludgy hacks. Rinse and repeat when dependencies change or when I need to spin up a new project.Fire up Cygwin and use cp to copy the node_modules folder into a destination project.

Run npm inside the "n" folder to install modules for whatever I need.

Create an "n" folder as a staging area on the root of C:\, because.

I tried the DOS2Unix transform on npm to get it working with Cygwin, but there seem to be other issues with this.

Cygwin supports long file paths, but npm.cmd doesn't work out-of-box due to crlf formatting.

( MS really? How long has NTFS been around?)

Windows API handles file operations for all major Windows shells and whatnot including: Explorer, CMD, Powershell,MYSgit bash, etc.

Windows API's MAXPATH is limited to 260 characters.

NT Kernel supports file path lengths up to 32,767 characters.

Per Joyent's github repo thread, this is an acknowledged issue with no palatable workarounds for developers in Windows-centric environments.

Running npm install from a standard Windows command prompt fails on deeply nested node_modules hierarchies.

Is there a well-documented, stable Cygwin workflow for npm and node execution to workaround the Windows API file path limits?

comparable to npm on OSX, npm on Linux, ruby gems or even nuget) I don't want to fiddle with a bunch of manual file edits, symlinks, etc. Is there an npm workflow for Windows that just works the way it was intended? "run the command and the files install" (e.g. I'd like a pragmatic approach for handling this problem right now on Windows, irrespective of what the Node community may or may not provide to improve npm usability on the Windows in the future.

I'm hitting a wall trying to use gulp plug-ins like Browser-Sync, because the node_modules folder graph fans out making the windows file paths too long to copy the files. I want to use gulp and related front-end tool chains in Windows-hosted development environments.