NodeJS：如何在不同目录中使用package.json和node_modules

Question

I have an app using the file structure

package.json
src/main/
 - webapp
 - java (containing my API)

My API is restricted so that it can only dispatch files from within src/main/webapp , as a result I need my node_modules to install within that folder.

If I run npm install I get the following:

package.json
node_modules/
src/main/
 - webapp
 - java (containing my API)

Is there a way I can change this so it installs by default in the following structure?

package.json
src/main/
 - webapp
    - node_modules/
 - java (containing my API)

If possible I'd rather not have a global environment variable as I work on multiple apps on this machine and I don't want them all installing to this apps node_modules

Answer 1

For the case above I intended to install my webapp dependencies, such as AngularJS using NodeJS. It turns out there is another package manager Bower that is much more fit for this purpose and allows you to configure the location of its bower_components to wherever you like. This has solved my issue and I now have the following file structure

package.json
node_modules/
src/main/
 - webapp
    -bower_components
        -angular (etc) 
 - java (containing my API)