From MSDN on MAX_PATH: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/

From MSDN on MAX_PATH: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx#maxpath https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... I first encountered this issue when helping new developers get started with NPM on Windows; older NPM versions produced deeply-nested node_modules trees that could easily overflow the limit.