create static npm dependency index to speed up installs

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create static npm dependency index to speed up installs #10

Open mafintosh opened 8 years ago

mafintosh commented 8 years ago

> npm-turbo express

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express@4.13.3 node_modules/express
├── escape-html@1.0.2
├── merge-descriptors@1.0.0
├── cookie@0.1.3
├── finalhandler@0.4.0
├── content-disposition@0.5.0
├── depd@1.0.1
└── send@0.13.0 (destroy@1.0.3)

mafintosh commented 8 years ago

could install everything using a symlink for near instant time installs:

npm-turbo --crank-it-up-to-11 express

perguth commented 8 years ago

Something like https://github.com/rstacruz/pnpm?

pnpm maintains a flat storage of all your dependencies in node_modules/.store. They are then symlinked whereever they're needed.