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[-] dazeous@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

node_modules might take a lot of space on a dev machine, but as op said, only the files used are packed into web artifacts that are deployed.

So 12gbs can end up as 10mb, arbitrary number to highlight significance of tree shaking.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

this assumes the dev is smart enough to do --save-dev

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