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NPM is also a pain in the neck - I've had to wipe out the node_modules folder many times because it got in a bad state when adding dependencies.

Other than that, I agree.

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In my experience, the only time this happens is with `npm uninstall`. If you only `npm install` stuff forever, node_modules seems pretty stable. Disk usage, however, is another matter.

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