Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.
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Why Is node_modules So Big?
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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