这是 Node.js 项目的通用文件夹结构吗？

Question

I am continuing on a project that someone else started it before, and I was still a beginner in nodejs when i first started with him, but after acquiring some experience and seen enough tutorials, I am finding his project's folder structure a bit strange, I haven't seen anything like it in the online tutorials.

Is the below a common practice in node.js projects, and if yes, why the root project folder is inside a folder named node_modules? node_modules is usually for storing the npm packages.

 └───node
        └───node_modules <---Why?
            └───project
                ├───backoffice
                │   └───client
                │       ├───controllers
                │       ├───css
                │       └───views
                ├───common
                ├───frontoffice
                │   └───client
                │       ├───controllers
                │       ├───css
                │       └───views
                ├───models
                └───node_modules

Answer 1

I think that this file structure is, not just a bit but very strange, I'm not a professional, but I've worked a lot on node.js projects (all by my on), and I already see a lot of node.js projects from other people.

So I would say that this folder structure is really messed up. Commonly the root directory is a folder with the project's name, without special characters (including spaces), the node_modules folder is a folder JUST for node packages and it's created automatically by node when you run "npm install" for some package.

For the project files, it's more common to create a source folder in the root directory (src). I think that's a good practice, mainly if you have a lot of configuration files.

I hope this helps!