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		jefozabuss 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5% I just installed a project with pnpm about 120 packages mostly react/webpack/eslint/redux related with prod env: 700MB without prod env: 900MB sadly the bloat cannot be avoided that well :/

jeffhuys 11 months ago [–]

pnpm stores them in a central place and symlinks them. You’ll see the benefits when you have multiple projects with a lot of the same packages.

syncsynchalt 11 months ago | [–]

You'll also see the benefit when `rm -rf`ing a `node_modules` and re-installing, as pnpm still has a local copy that it can re-link after validating its integrity.

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