node_modules size more then 100mo

[akselmi]

Hello, the size of node-rdkafka is about 167.9 Mo inside node_modules, i looked into it and i found that

node_modules/node-rdkafka/deps = 135.4 Mo node_modules/node-rdkafka/build/deps/librdkafka.a = 15.1 mo node_modules/node-rdkafka/build/deps/librdkafka.a = 5.7 mo

seems like removing them have no impact, everything work fine. is it possible please to make sure to delete them ?

[tatianajiselle]

if you are containerizing your project, you can manually delete these libraries in your dockerfile after a npm install:

RUN rm -rf /full/path

[Elsvent]

Per investigate ` bash-5.0# du -h -d 1

11.3M ./src-cpp

212.0K ./win32

59.3M ./src

76.0K ./debian

2.1M ./tests

1.7M ./packaging

160.1M ./examples

148.0K ./mklove

235.6M .

bash-5.0# pwd

/node_modules/node-rdkafka/deps/librdkafka ` example take 160 M Just a reference for you

[raymcdermott]

My experience today:

$ du -sm node-rdkafka # -m reports size in Mb
432     node-rdkafka
$ cd node-rdkafka
du -sm * | sort -rn       
366     deps
66      build # <--------------------------- Actually used by nodejs

Removing build stopped the runtime from working.

Removing deps has no effect on the runtime.

Would be great to clean up after the build in your package.json scripts