Heavyweight dependencies

I've always liked how Node installs project dependencies into a node_modules directory within each project.

It's cool because you can keep project dependencies separate. And, more than once it's been very useful to add debugger statements into a project's dependency.

But it's not cool because it means you have a lot of extra code on your machine. Even if you use the same library across all of your projects it will be installed once for each of them.

I wanted to see just how much space its all taking up on my Mac for yesterday's post. I changed into the directory where I keep all of my projects and ran:

find . -name "node_modules" -type d -prune -print | xargs du -chs

And the result:

 23G	total