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too much node_modules #24

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pimoGit opened this issue Jan 17, 2018 · 4 comments
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too much node_modules #24

pimoGit opened this issue Jan 17, 2018 · 4 comments

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@pimoGit
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pimoGit commented Jan 17, 2018

Thanks for this repo, it's so useful to play and learn.

It seems though that when you run npm install on a project folder it installs a lot of useless modules. Am I missing something or it's an issue?
This way the node_modules folders are on an average of 100-150 MB.
Thanks!

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gustavostuff commented Feb 25, 2018

that's one of the disadvantages of these kind of projects, but it's worth all that space (and please note, a lot of those modules are just for development, once you export this to production the size of the project becomes considerably smaller)

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pimoGit commented Feb 26, 2018

I see.
I was just wondering why so many useless modules.
Maybe the product of a lot of tries and then never delete them.
Thanks, @tavuntu

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gustavostuff commented Feb 26, 2018

I haven't tried this myself, but they say it works for this problem (it reduces the size of node_modules by symlinking some stuff), maybe you'll want to take a look :)
https://www.npmjs.com/package/linklocal

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pimoGit commented Feb 26, 2018

I will take a look, thanks!

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