I was trying to create a node.js (express.js) app on a shared folder in VirtualBox (guest Ubuntu, host Win7). During this try I got an error saying symlinks are not supported by my drive.
This is a minor issue, but…
If symlinks are so important to node projects how it’s possible to store the project on SVN service (which ignores symlinks). Or what happens if I ZIP the directory with the project and send it to someone. Will it still work?
It seems like a silly question, but I just got an error on creating an express.js project caused by symlinks-not-supported message.
I don’t know how exactly you were creating your express project nor how you came by the error, but I can tell you from experience that symlinks are not essential for node projects.
My usual development environment is Windows 7 and deploying to linux is just a simple matter of moving the files into the other environment either by packing them, using git or creating a nvm package or any other way.