Size of scaffolded project is massive

[marcofaion]

Hi,

i've generated a new application with the generator and found that a new project scaffolded this way is about 200Mb, most of the weight reside in the node_modules directory.

Is that normal? i'm asking cause i've some trouble importing such massive project inside eclipse ide.

Thanks for any info.

[sindresorhus]

Ouch. That's huge. I'm getting even worse 327 MB!

I've looked into this for you and it seems like there's a few big offenders:

• Don't depend on whole of bower  btford/grunt-google-cdn#62
• Don't depend on whole of bower passy/google-cdn#27
• Upgrade to socket.io 1.0 karma-runner/karma#1220 (comment)
• Published size imagemin/imagemin#97

What might help a little bit is to run $ npm dedupe and it will deduplicate duplicate dependencies. It brought the size down to 190 MB for me. Still way too much though.

[marcofaion]

thanks you, i've tried to run "npm dedupe" but the size has not changed :( it's still 196,9Mb

[sindresorhus]

@marcofaion Make sure you're running the latest version of node and npm.

[marcofaion]

@sindresorhus

$ node -v
v0.10.36
$ npm -v
2.7.6

Maybe not the latest, anyway, if the size of the yeoman generated project is correct, maybe i've to use another ide to manage it.

[sindresorhus]

@marcofaion The size is not correct, but we'll have to wait on the referenced tickets to be fixed. That should get the size down 90%.

[eddiemonge]

This ticket is rather broad and the correct steps have been taken in the other projects.

[abhishek0589]

This issue still persists.

Node- 4.4.3
npm- 3.8.6
grunt cli- 1.2
grunt-0.4.5

The size of simple todo app described in Yeoman tutorial is going to 190 MBs. I have also tried npm dedupe but it did not change anything. Please refer attachment.

[sindresorhus]

@abhishek0589 The linked issues btford/grunt-google-cdn#62, passy/google-cdn#27, and imagemin/imagemin#97, are still not fixed. Help out on them if you want to see this resolved.