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> 19000 dependencies

Doesn't this happen because of package manager duplication? I think npm lets packages have their own copies of their dependencies. Since we have a lots of small, widely used packages, they get duplicated at numerous points in the dependency graph. The number of files and installation size explodes.




A big part is the development toolchain, which would be installed at a system level for most languages.

I started a vue project last night, npm install --production installs 4 packages. With dev dependencies, I get 2300 packages. Eslint, babel, webpack, etc bring in lots of luggage

BTW, I think 19000 is wrong, on a fresh node_modules I get:

    $ npm install gatsby
    ...
    + [email protected]
    added 1773 packages from 733 contributors 
     and audited 23706 packages in 52.317s
    $ du -sh node_modules
    245M node_modules
Not sure where the "audited" number comes from, but its not the number of install packages. I get 2737 directories containing a package.json, 1477 of which are uniq.

`debug` appears 32 times!




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