Does sam support sym linked node_modules?

[ktersius]

In order to speed up our build process we switched to symlinking the /dist/node_modules folder to our ./node_modules folder instead of copying it over on builds.

Unfortunately this seems to break sam local start-api as on the very first require it cannot find the module.

Is there some way to get this to work or just not supported?

[sriram-mv]

For symlinks to work inside containers, I believe they need to be absolute paths, and both directories need to be mounted within the container. Need to dig deeper on this particular issue.

[sriram-mv]

Going to close this issue in favor of esbuild solutions for faster builds along with cached and parallel builds. Please re-open this issue if it's still something that we need to target.

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