WTF

/Users/me/my_company/my_project/node_modules/gulp-sass/node_modules/node-sass/node_modules/pangyp/bin/node-gyp

this is getting ridiculous

Isn't this already solved by later versions of node?

And then you try to edit a file on Windoze home and can't because name too long. Oh joy.

Insert yodawg.gif

@kanduvisla I dont know, probably but still, someone at some point looked at this "thing" and found it acceptable.

It is indeed fixed, no more nested node_modules. I discovered this couple of weeks ago when opened my node_modules and it had all the main packages and their dependencies in the root level. Its a good thing and the directory doesnt consume 150mb of code anymore 😀

Reminds me of the pleasant experience of a failed install of loopback.io. It became a massive pain when I tried to get it removed. The modules were nested so deep, no Windows tool can delete it. I had to descend deep inside the nested structure until I get to the maximum allowed file path length for a delete operation to run and repeat it on every branch.

I would have written a small tree traversal delete program to do that for me if not for the fact that I'm a complete rubbish when it comes to algorithms and it would have taken me at least 4 hours to do that.

Turned out deleting the whole thing took me a good 7 hours. I thought Fuck! had I written the the program. The whole ordeal would have not been a completely lost battle.

The next time it happened, I suddenly remembered Google and downloaded some neat recursive delete program someone put up online.

Npm v3+ no longer nests dependencies unless conflicting versions of the same dependency are required. Npm will try to put all the dependencies at the root of node_modules, and only nest dependencies when multiple versions of a package are required.

Wow... I didn't know Windows had a limit on long file/folder structures.