too much node_modules

Question

too much node_modules

pimoGit opened this issue 7 years ago · 4 comments

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!

Answer 1 · 2018-02-25T21:44:52.000Z

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)

Answer 2 · 2018-02-26T08:51:33.000Z

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

Answer 3 · 2018-02-26T16:51:48.000Z

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

Answer 4 · 2018-02-26T17:27:29.000Z

I will take a look, thanks!