I setup a development environment with Windows 8 and Ubuntu as a virtual machine. For that I use VirtualBox.
I also manage to create a shared folder in VirtualBox.
In this shared folder I try to start a project with ember-generator of Yeoman.
yo ember --skip-install --karma
npm install --no-bin-links
For installing modules NPM I use the option "--no-bin-links" not to create symbolic links. Unfortunately, I still have errors creations symbolic links ... Is what I use although this option ? There he has a bug ?
The NPM docs about parameter "--no-bin-links" say:
will prevent npm from creating symlinks for any binaries the package might contain.
Which will just cause NPM to not create links in the node_modules/.bin folder. I also searched for a way to prevent NPM from creating symlinks when using npm install ../myPackage, but can't find any solution...
Update: The npm support team said this will reproduce the old behaviour (no symbolic links):
npm install $(npm pack <folder> | tail -1)
Works for me in git-bash on Windows 10.