OT, but "I’ve got a folder with 20 node projects that contains over 100,000 files." - seriously? I'm haven't played much with node - is 5000 files in a project normal?
For my small apidoc-Tool (apidocjs.com) i have over 2.000 Files, the project itself has only 50 Files ;-)
Another node project (only a small API-Server) has 20.000 files.