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what you described is npm@2's behaviour. npm@3 will flatten dependencies as much as possible

• zamalek 10y ago
  How does it flatten dependencies? Symlinks?
  • secoif 10y ago
    no, it just installs everything it can into the top level node_modules. npm@2 would do this to a degree as well, it was just less sophisticated about it.
    • zamalek 10y ago
      > into the top level node_modules. Just tried using npm3 explicitly and I stand corrected.