Flatten Packages

Mads Kristensen

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Flattens the node_modules folder hierarchy by using the "flatten-packages" npm package behind the scenes. Works with long paths. Requires Node.js installed on the machine

Flattens node_modules folder to avoid long path issues on Windows.

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Important! Node.js MUST be installed for this to work

Features

The extension adds a button in the context-menu of Solution Explorer.

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It shows up when you right-click package.json or any folder containing a subfolder callednode_modules.

The first time you run this extension it will download the npm package flatten-packages if you don't already have it installed.

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When the flatten-packages modules is installed (it takes ~5 seconds), the extension will run the command to flatten the package hierarchy in thenode_modules folder.

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Since the extension uses a Node module behind the scenes, the package flattening will work with long paths that Windows and Visual Studio normally can't handle.