Hello fellow programmers, I'm pretty new to node.js and I've just inherited a massive project that's built in node and I need to prepare it for small team development.
I apologize in advance for my newbieness.. I hope to become much better at node.js in the coming months (I have no choice) I plan to use SVN and wanted to segment the existing project into many smaller repos to lessen the chance of conflicts when being working on by multiple people. One thing I want to do is move the node_modules out of the main application repo because it causes commits and deployments to take waaay too long because of how massive the node_modules folder is. I understand that the node_modules can be anywhere above the application root so right now I've set it up so it looks like this: Before: /var/myProjects/ProjectX/node_modules/ /var/myProjects/ProjectX/app.js /var/myProjects/ProjectX/everything else After: /var/myProjects/node_modules/ /var/myProjects/ProjectX/app.js /var/myProjects/ProjectX/everything else I run my app and everything seems to be working fine. Now here's my confusion. I wanted to make sure that having moved the node_modules folder one level up from my application root really worked. So I went ahead and renamed the node_modules folder to "test". And low and behold.. my application doesn't break! It doesn't stop working.. which has me very puzzled. Where is it loading the dependencies from?? I noticed that /home/myUser/.npm/ appears to have all the same node_modules as the ones that were in my application. Is it loading it from there? How can I verify this? Is what I did ok? Moving node_modules up one folder I mean. Really appreciate your time. Thank you -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
