npm install: when to use --no-bin-links?

Question

When and why we should use the option --no-bin-links when we install npm packages?

The official docs say:

The --no-bin-links argument will preven

Answer 1

So far one of the scenarios that I came across that --no-bin-links may help is when deploying packages in environments that may not have access to NPM Enterprise and you'd want to actually install all the packages and deploy the node_modules directly, in which case symlinks may cause some problem ( as you can't deploy them ), using this flag solve this problem.