NPM install a package with dependencies to git repos brings in node_modules

[egucciar]

Hi,

In npm version 2.13.3, I have a flattened node modules folder and several dependencies in a project which are installed from git.

I have a dependency which itself has git dependencies. These dependencies are also dependencies to the main project.

If I do npm install, the dependency with git dependencies is installing all git dependencies within the packages' node_modules folder

so the tree looks like this:

|_ node_modules
_|_ common_dep_1
_|_ common_dep_2
_|_ package
__|_ node_modules
___|_ common_dep_1
___|_ common_dep_2

This is causing issues with my webpack bundler, since it seems to prefer local npm_modules over the "root" npm_modules. Then the common dependencies are brought into the webpack bundle twice.

How can we resolve this issue? Other than publishing all of our packages to NPM, is there a solution?

Thanks,
Erica

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