1. npm dedup can help.
2. if that is not enough: all modules can reference parent module's 
node_modules, so if you recursively move all dirs into the root 
node_modules it should work.

a/node_modules/b/node_modules/c -> a/node_modules/c

On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:07:54 PM UTC-5, Justin Beckwith wrote:
>
> Greetings folks,
> I'm trying to use a module on Windows that has many dependencies.  Many of 
> these dependencies have dependencies and the depth of node_modules 
> increases pretty quick.  Generally this isn't a problem, unless you're 
> using Windows :)  Windows (or specifically some of the software we're 
> building on Windows with .NET) doesn't really like file paths longer than 
> 260 characters.  Is there a way to build a module where the deep level 
> dependencies are all stored at the root of it's node_modules directory?  Or 
> am I stuck using the hierarchical model?
>
> Thanks!
>

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