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#post-id: 6633-16-34
#original-date: 23.09.2018 Sun
#original-time: 4:34 PM
#original-day:  6633
#original-host: WinXP Home SP3 (Build 2600)

> *I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe 
> What Happened Next*
> 
> [...]
> 
> So, what’s in these dependencies anyway? Many are self-explanatory. 
> “range-parser” parses ranges, “escape-html” escapes html, and 
> “negotiator” makes great deals.
> 
H> owever, one dependency — “yummy” — caught my attention.
> 
> [...]
> 
> What sort of monster brokered an advertising deal like this? 
> I pass sensitive customer data through Express, and they go ahead 
> and sell my twitter favorites to Hot Pockets? Needless to say, 
> I likely won’t be using express again.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Ember.js is a JavaScript web framework that specializes in quickly 
> rendering todo lists. It packs quite the punch at only 112 
> kilobytes minified and gzipped, but what most people don’t know is 
> how much of that 112 kilobytes is spent on nothing.
> 
> [...]
> 
> • Ember prides itself on using Glimmer: a small, lightning fast 
>   rendering library.
> 
> • Glimmer brings in the entirety of Encyclopedia Brittanica, just 
>   to display the definition for the word “glimmer” in its help 
>   menu.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Babel is a compiler for next-generation JavaScript that beat its 
> competition when someone at Facebook said they liked it better.
> 
> [...] Curiously, not many seem to notice the incredible amount 
> of dependencies Babel requires. Until now.
> 
> I started my investigation by installing the “babel-preset-es2015”  
> package. This package allows twenty-something web developers to 
> write a  newer, worse version of JavaScript that no one else 
> on their team knows. [...]
> 
> A whopping 90 dependencies totaling 17 megabytes. Let that soak in.
> 
> If the entire recorded history of humanity could fit in a single 
> megabyte, then Babel alone would consist of SEVENTEEN times the 
> entire recorded history of humanity. Just so that we can avoid 
> writing JavaScript.
> 
> So I started wondering, what on earth is causing Babel’s code to 
> be so large?
> 
> One of the biggest offenders, a package called “babel-core” was 
> suspiciously large, coming in at 13 megabytes on its own. I opened 
> up babel-core in vim, then turned off my computer because Ctrl-C 
> wasn’t exiting, then opened babel-core in Sublime Text 2.
> 
> [...]
> 
> It’s true. Each installation of Babel includes a picture of Guy 
> Fieri, and there is nothing you can do about it.

https://medium.com/@jdan/i-peeked-into-my-node-modules-directory-and-you-wont-believe-what-happened-next-b89f63d21558