Your node_modules directory can get so bloated that the community came up with different package managers just for deduplication! pnpm, for example, makes one global-adjacent cache, and then just symlinks the dependencies as needed. This is because the regular npm doesn't, because what if the package changed between the 20ms since I downloaded it for nuxt? (Sorry Nuxt users, had to pick a name)
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node_modulesdirectory can get so bloated that the community came up with different package managers just for deduplication!pnpm, for example, makes one global-adjacent cache, and then just symlinks the dependencies as needed. This is because the regularnpmdoesn't, because what if the package changed between the 20ms since I downloaded it fornuxt? (Sorry Nuxt users, had to pick a name)