yarnpkg/yarn

How to use --modules-folder flag?

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#1,684 opened on Nov 4, 2016

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Description

Sorry if this was asked before but I couldn't find an example in the documentation/google search.

Does this flag mean that I could have a "vendor" directory instead of "node_modules"? How to use it? I tried something like yarn install --modules-folder ./vendor/node_modules and it just installed the modules in ./node_modules.

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version. Windows 7 yarn 0.16.1

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Research direction
Review the 56 comments in the issue to understand if maintainers have provided any guidance on the modules folder flag. Examine yarn's documentation and the install command implementation (likely in src/cli/commands/install.js) to see if the flag is still supported or deprecated. If it's a documentation gap, propose adding a usage example to the README or CLI help.