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Long path support issues on windows when using npm3

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Description

TL;DR when using npm3 node packages should not include their dependencies. ie shouldn’t have a sub node_modules folder. on windows this can cause long path names. longer than what windows can support. npm guidance https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm3

Long story but we use cake build scripts and it doesn’t support long files paths on windows. We have had a similar issue recently when phantomjs broken release.

Environment

npm ls react-scripts (if you haven’t ejected): react-scripts@0.7.0
node -v: v4.4.5 / v6.9.1
npm -v: v3.7.1 / v3.10.8

Then, specify:

Operating system: Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012

node_modules structure after npm install

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 7 years ago
Comments:10 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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gaearoncommented, Oct 28, 2016

We control bundledDependencies. We added them to cut the install time on npm 2. However now that Node 6 is the LTS release (and comes with npm 3) it may be a good time to drop support for npm 2 and remove bundledDependencies.

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fsoncommented, Nov 22, 2016

Bundled dependencies were removed in #1068 so this should be fixed in the upcoming release.

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