In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the reasons your node_modules folder gets so large, and what you can do to help keep the file size down.

Show Notes

• 00:24 Welcome
• 00:51 The punching bag of Javascript
• DaisyDisk

02:03 Spoiler alert - it’s text

04:49 What actually increases the size?

07:29 Types

09:27 Polyfills

11:09 Raycast Snippets and BetterTouchTool

12:44 Babel

15:08 Markdown

15:52 Translations

18:23 What is the solution?

Raycast

Bundlephobia | Size of npm dependencies

Better Touch Tool

Fast, disk space efficient package manager | pnpm

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