The problem is symlinks, which is what npm uses to create the runnable commands for those modules.
There are a bunch of options involving config tweaks, setting up network file sharing, or some semi-automatic invocation of rsync... ...but you might find it easiest to just keep your image assets working directory separate from your app and just copy them over as needed. ~Ryan On Thu, Sep 24, 2015, 9:22 PM Steven Ottz <o...@aapt.net.au> wrote: > I have setup a development machine on windows using Virtualbox running > Ubuntu. > > I would like to create all my graphics etc on my windows machine and then > keep them synced using shed folders. > > When I run NPM in my app folder to install grunt --save-dev and yo webbapp > it returns errors. > > I know this because it is fine when I don't share the folder. > > How can I make this work? It now seems pointless to use node with Virtual > Box thus using Grunt and Yeoman. Why is all this stuff so hard to learn and > use it all seems so pointless. > > Thanks > > -- > Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > New group rules: > https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md > Old group rules: > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/1e4d253a-4899-449e-ae19-2af4778ba03b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/1e4d253a-4899-449e-ae19-2af4778ba03b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAGjmZGzEmz_uE136_GWAmoYJYuGOB5mitCHPxRCMHqR_SO0xkA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
