[HN Gopher] Size of node_modules folder when installing the top ...
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       Size of node_modules folder when installing the top 100 packages
        
       Author : vnglst
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2020-01-09 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (size-of-npm.netlify.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (size-of-npm.netlify.com)
        
       | capableweb wrote:
       | Cool! You could even scrape the history of this. If you take a
       | date that you want to scrape, then you resolve the top-level
       | packages with their release date that you'll find next to the
       | version in the package.json. Use the latest found version that is
       | before the date you're trying to scrape for.
        
       | viraptor wrote:
       | I can't find the code that does the actual package installation.
       | Does it do deduplication / linking of modules, or does it install
       | full tree?
        
       | vnglst wrote:
       | I thought it might be (mildly) interesting to keep track of how
       | the npm node_modules folder grows over time. So I made this
       | website. Source code: https://github.com/vnglst/size-of-npm/
        
         | pixelbath wrote:
         | I find this post a bit ironic considering you built a 1.1 MB
         | React app to display an image and a bit of text (and the image
         | itself isn't even included in the repository).
        
       | nkrisc wrote:
       | I used create-react-app recently to get up and running with React
       | to learn more about it and try using it. It works as advertised.
       | However I also noticed that I now have 906,380 dependencies in
       | node_modules and it weighs in at about 214MB. I thought that was
       | mildly interesting. Magic ain't cheap.
        
       | bransonf wrote:
       | Does anyone know what that late November spike is all about?
        
       | smabie wrote:
       | It seems to me that this website could be a completely static
       | site that is automatically regenerated once a day with a new
       | graph. Instead you seem to be succumbing to the exact same
       | problem you are highlighting. This a good example of how the
       | culture of software engineering is moving in the wrong direction.
       | We need to all make a stand and say no more to this culture.
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       | Of course, that's made difficult by the fact it's against our own
       | collective interest. At this rate even the worst developers will
       | be able to be employed managing some gargantuan and wholly
       | unnecessary software stock.
       | 
       | Not to knock on you to much, but this culture of bloat reminds
       | about the classic "Evolution of a Programmer" joke:
       | 
       | https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html
       | 
       | Let's all try and be like the Guru Hacker, not the Seasoned
       | Professional!
        
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