Setting up a single node_modules folder for all of your angular apps.

sym-linked-node-modules.md

Navigate to the folder where you would like to store node_modules. In this example I will use the %userprofile% shortcut.

I am building an Angular app. So in another temp directory I created a dummy app and copied it's package.json and its node_modules folder into my User Profile directory.

Create a cmd file that contains the following.

mklink "./node_modules" "%userprofile%/node_modules"

Now you can run that command anywhere you need those node_modules.

If you have apps with different dependencies you can always create a folder for each version.

mklink "./node_modules" "%userprofile%/angular/node_modules"

or

mklink "./node_modules" "%userprofile%/react/node_modules"

This approach is really buggy!