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I am trying to get my web app to deploy on Azure and I am running to the long paths issue with npm@2.

Googling around lead me to this repo and other mentions of using 3.1.0. #1 points to 3.3.6 being available too, but the current stable version is 3.8.1. Any idea how to check on which npm versions are available on Azure?

Pinging @davidebbo too.

It seems the npm version 3.1.x has problems with node-gyp that affects various packages e.g. babel:

• npm/npm#8878
• nodejs/node-gyp#661
• npm/npm#8921

Npm 3.2.x (or 3.3.x) fixes the issue but it's not available on Azure web apps yet. The only availble version of npm3 is 3.1.0.
I need npm 3.x for the flattened dependencies, but can't use the current version so appear to be stuck at this point.
Any ideas of how this can be worked around? e.g. manually install a local copy of NPM and use that?