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    Absolutely! Plus, the quite long name also sometimes breaks the file path limit in windows due to the fact that the node_modules dependencies are recursed over and over again. A shorter name like nmods would heavily reduce that risk... Oh my. Commented May 29, 2014 at 11:44
  • However as one would argue @thomasjaworski.com, it could be a windows bug, not a node/npm bug. This was heavily discussed on a github issue (can't find atm) so im not going to argue ;). Just saying :P Commented Feb 5, 2016 at 19:45
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    Agree @codeninja I know which github thread you mean, and I feel neither is a good excuse :) Windows totally failed with path length limitation, and the nodejs guys did not do any better by choosing this miserable convention Commented Feb 15, 2016 at 7:14
  • I described a partial workaround based on symbolic links (Mac/Linux): Huge number of files generated for every Angular project Commented Apr 11, 2020 at 15:26