Access node_modules from another folder

Question

Recently started working with Gulp and I can\'t figure out is it really necessary to have a copy of node_modules directly in folder with current project? E.g. I have this s

Answer 1

One problem why you shouldn't do this is because of versioning. If your modules require different versions of the same package, you're going to run into problems. One package is going to win, and it might break another package.

Further, you get into the problem of having to merge the dependency lists in some way - meaning, you'll have to get the dependencies from work/package.json, work2/package.json, etc. and then install all of them at once.

Merging node_modules/ won't solve your problem, either - believe me, don't try.