Of stupid NPM & symlinks on guest OS in VirtualBox

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  1. If you use the –no-bin-link flag on the npm commands it will no longer attempt to generate symlinks. this would allow you to use nodejs/express in a virtualbox shared folder or any filesystem that doesn’t support symbolic links (cough…ntfs…cough).

    1. If you use the –no-bin-link flag on the npm commands it will no longer attempt to generate symlinks

      Didn’t know that, thanks. 🙂

      this would allow you to use nodejs/express in a virtualbox shared folder or any filesystem that doesn’t support symbolic links (cough…ntfs…cough)

      If you’d read what I had written, the issue I described here is not of a file system not supporting symlinks but of a VM unable to create symlinks (targeted on its own file system) in a shared directory on host OS. Btw I was using a Mac OSX here so no NTFS. 🙂

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