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Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by sgift on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:40AM (#14154452)
> * Target environment is not Windows

That one is still my main problem. I know, I know, Windows is evil and so on, but our customers use it. We are remarkably free in choosing our tools or whatever, but Windows is usually a constant (Intranet environments) and every day I crash against the absolute "Windows is a second class platform" problem of NPM modules. For an environment which is supposedly platform-agnostic the amount of "only on Unix" is astonishing.

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Re:Hard-won lessons: Five years with Node.js by jklepatch on Monday April 24, 2017 @10:35PM (#14190312)
Really? I think exactly the opposite. Compared to a lot of other tech, I found nodejs to work pretty well on windows. For example, recently npm switched from a nested to a flat directory organisation in node_modules. Windows has a limit on the number of nested directories, so this new organisation helped a lot.

Maybe that you use a lot of modules with c dependencies?

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