NPM installs dependencies in a wrong place

Question

I just run a simple npm install morgan in a folder and for some reason it adds all the sub dependencies to the parent folder. See image attached

Answer 1

Yes, this is a new feature in npm 3.x, you can read about it here:

https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v3.0.0

Your dependencies will now be installed maximally flat. Insofar as is possible, all of your dependencies, and their dependencies, and THEIR dependencies will be installed in your project's node_modules folder with no nesting. You'll only see modules nested underneath one another when two (or more) modules have conflicting dependencies.

Basically, it now handles dependencies with as little nesting as possible.

Answer 2

Npm has changed the way they organize dependencies. So instead of 2 separate modules requiring the same dependency and installing them in their own node_modules folder. The dependency is only installed once at the same folder level the node module is installed at.