Is it good practice to have gulp copy modules?

Should I use gulp to copy my node_modules over to my development directory? or is this bad practice? I am currently just copying them over but I feel like there is a better way.

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I currently use gulp in my node projects. I think it is a perfectly good way to manage your application

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