On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 9:40:19 AM UTC-4, Steven Ottz wrote: > > I am using npm grunt and only have 3 packages that I have installed > however in my project, node_modules folder have symlinks to hundreds of > other packages (I think are dependencies of the main packages) > > Why are so many packages being installed or linked locally in my > development node_modules folder? > > Should I only see the packages that I have installed in this folder? >
No, you should see most of them -- only ones that conflict in version with other requirements get nested. This is the new behavior in npm 3, and made life a lot better for Windows users and uses less time writing to disk too. Aria -- 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/b7761f2f-0b47-4fcb-a908-31cce15f4545%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
