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How to use --modules-folder flag?

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#1,684 opened on Nov 4, 2016

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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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Investigate the ' modules folder' flag in yarn. Check the official documentation and source code to understand its intended use. It might be deprecated; test with a simple project and refer to issues #1684 for community discussion. Provide clear examples of how to set a custom modules folder.
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