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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