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So, I do a lot of Angular development. I help out with a number of projects, all of which have their own npm dependencies. My typical workflow with a new project is to git clone the repo, run npm i to install the dependencies and go off and have a cup of tea while npm downloads all the dependencies. Now, there are ways that you can download a single npm dependency to a centrally managed folder, which will create a symlink for you locally, but as far as I can see, there's no way to tell something like Angular to do this with every package so my diskspace gets eaten up by 100s of Mb of duplicated packages on every install.
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There's probably an NPM package for that... 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: So, I do a lot of Angular development.
My condolences. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
Pete O'Hanlon wrote: there's no way to tell something like Angular to do this with every package
As much as I dislike Angular, can't blame it for this issue. This would be an npm thing. IMO localized packages are better and less error prone. That being said, the first real issue here is Angular is bloatware.  Also, make sure the devs working on it don't add a new package for every last thing in the world that could easily be done with vanilla JS.
Buuutttt, since you passed the point of no return it seems, npm supports the ability to always use a global folder no matter what.
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v9/using-npm/config#global
Just stick that bad boy in a npmrc file in your home directory (~/.npmrc) and nuke the old node_modules folders for your projects and try again. Keep in mind, you'll still probably have a local node_modules folder because packages use it for other things (not sure, never tried) but if you do it should be a lot smaller at least.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: IMO localized packages are better and less error prone.
I agree strongly.
Always seemed like potentially a failure path that would just show up unexpectedly.
Same thing happens when a developer decides to use a new library which requires multiple other libraries to be updated (tens or even more.) And yet when I mention that this now requires a full regression they can't understand why.
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So, I couldn't find any mention of this when I was crashing around the npm docs. Your google-fu is strong Master Falcon.
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Yeah, I dunno why, but it is hard to find. I just got frustrated with stuff myself not too long ago and went through the docs. So I, err we, got lucky. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Also, if these packages are interdependent, it may be worthwhile looking into peer dependencies too. My first post is the quick fix, but peer dependencies are technically another option. They shouldn't be abused however, but it's an option.
Jeremy Falcon
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Pete, Python. Python, meet Pete.
You two will hate each other...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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... and Chris lights the match...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: 100s of Mb of duplicated packages on every install.
How many other projects do you work on? Might be annoying but these days a couple of hundred megs isn't much. Even could use it as an excuse to get a better and bigger harddrive.
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I am currently helping 14 different projects.
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Better you get frustrated instead everybody else who just want to clone one project and have it build without hunting for missing libraries, wrong versions and missing shared folders.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think we used the same starter word again!
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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it (HP probook with AMD CPU) suddenly had black screen in the morning when I was working in home.
so I had to drive to company technology support express to get help.
it turns out to be hard drive and motherboard failure. It is a brand new one and I used just 5 months.
diligent hands rule....
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Happens. Probably under warranty. Hope you were backed up. Laptops are notorious for hard drive and motherboard failures. Usually heat or impact related.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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