NPM Install is exctracting packages

Question

Usually it would install the files in a folder but now it seems like it's extacting everything in node_modules ? Did I mess something up?

I looked on the internet but I couldn't find the anwser.

Answer 1

That's how npm dependency resolution works since version 3, basically for efficiency purposes. For more information have a look at the docs. https://docs.npmjs.com/how-npm-works/npm3