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Tyler
Tyler

Reputation: 18177

Moving the location of the modules folder

I have a project that is multiple node apps, each with their own node_modules folder:

root
    app 1
        node_modules
    app 2
        node_modules
    app 3
        node_modules

The apps are independent of each other, but do send some data back and forth using socket.io.

Since there are quite a few shared modules, I was wondering if it was possible to have a node_modules folder at the root level, that could be shared amongst the apps?

Something like this:

root
    node_modules
    app 1
    app 2
    app 3

Upvotes: 0

Views: 44

Answers (1)

mscdex
mscdex

Reputation: 106696

That should work fine since node looks in parent directories up until the root of the file system when searching for a module.

The only thing you should be careful of is module versions. If different apps depend on different module versions, you'd have to keep those copies of those modules local to the app directory so that it picks up the right module.

Upvotes: 1

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