node_modules

Are you encountering an issue when installing npm packages? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. This problem can occur due to the behavior of npm when installing a package in an empty folder. In this blog, we’ll discuss the issue and provide solutions to fix it. When using the command npm install <packagename> in an empty folder, npm creates a package.json file with the package as a dependency, a package-lock.json file, and installs the package in the node_modules folder....

Save Disk Space by Deleting Unnecessary node_modules Folders Recently, I needed to transfer a folder filled with old projects to a new computer. When I tried compressing it, I was surprised to find that its size was a whopping 8GB. Quite excessive for simple coding projects that mainly consist of text files. Since all the projects were written in JavaScript, each one had a node_modules folder. However, these folders are completely unnecessary because they can be regeneratd by running npm install within each project....

My thoughts on the node_modules folder size debate In the world of JavaScript application development, the size of the node_modules folder has always been a topic of discussion. How can a simple application be 100, 200MB in size without even adding a single line of code? Take, for example, running npx create-react-app todolist, which downloads a whopping 218.7MB of “stuff”! (Yes, that’s the actual number). However, before we criticize the size of the node_modules folder, let’s think about the countless hours that programmers all over the world have put into creating and maintaining open-source software....